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Greenland vaccination program a success story.

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2003 JUN 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Greenland childhood vaccination program is a success story, according to a report in the journal Vaccine.

According to recent research from Denmark, "To assess coverage rates of standard childhood vaccinations in Greenland, a geographically isolated and sparsely populated area, and to determine risk factors for low coverage, we performed a register-based cohort study among 596 children from 1993 to 1998 in Sisimiut, Greenland."

"For vaccines given before the age of two years (pertussis 1-3, DT-IPV 1-3, and MMR1) coverage rates in general were impressively high being on or above levels of Western countries," reported Christoffer Holst Hansen and collaborators at the Statens Serum Institute. "A risk factor for low coverage was migration."

"The Greenlandic vaccination model with free vaccinations administered by health workers who systematically ...

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