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Vaccination Requirement Reduces Racial Disparities
March 03, 2008
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill., March 3 -- The American Academy of Pediatrics issued the following news release:

In 1997, the Illinois Department of Public Health mandated hepatitis B vaccination before students entered 5th grade. Before this requirement, black and Hispanic students were less likely than white students to be immunized against hepatitis B. The study, "Effect of a School-Entry Vaccination Requirement on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hepatitis B Immunization Coverag . . .

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