Mandatory Immunization and Activities

Immunization policies for improving vaccine coverage in Canada are diverse and vary across provinces and territories. Legislative policies mandating strict vaccination requirements for school entry and mandatory education for non-medical exemptions are examples of some of the policies adopted by select jurisdictions to combat low vaccine coverage.

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Last Reviewed: March 11, 2019

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Mandatory Immunization and Activities

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Mandatory Immunization and Activities

A Shot in the Arm: How to Improve Vaccination Policy in Canada

Mandatory vaccinations: The Canadian picture

Mandatory Immunization of Health Care Providers: The Time Has Come (Editorial)

Potential strategies to improve childhood immunization rates in Canada

Mandatory infant & childhood immunization: Rationales, issues and knowledge gaps

Acceptability of financial incentives or quasi-mandatory schemes to increase uptake of immunisations in preschool children in the United Kingdom: Qualitative study with parents and service delivery staff

Detrimental effects of introducing partial compulsory vaccination: experimental evidence

No Jab, No Pay — no planning for migrant children

Effectiveness and acceptability of parental financial incentives and quasi-mandatory schemes for increasing uptake of vaccinations in preschool children: systematic review, qualitative study, and discrete choice experiment

Noni MacDonald

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