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. 2022 May;112(5):719-723.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.306765. Epub 2022 Mar 24.

School Mandate and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Prekindergartners in New York City, 2012-2019

Kai Hong  1 , Megan C Lindley  1 , Yuping Tsai  1 , Fangjun Zhou  1
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School Mandate and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Prekindergartners in New York City, 2012-2019

Kai Hong et al. Am J Public Health. 2022 May.

Abstract

New York City (NYC) introduced a universal prekindergarten program in 2014 that mandated influenza vaccination for enrollment. We conducted a difference-in-difference-in-differences study to evaluate the program using 2012 to 2019 MarketScan claims data. After the introduction of the program, influenza vaccine uptake among four-year-old children in NYC during the subsequent seasons increased by 6.3 to 9.8 percentage points compared with the rest of New York State. (Am J Public Health. 2022;112(5):719-723. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306765).

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