Setting the Course A Strategic Vision for Immunization Finance: Part 1: Summary of the Chicago Workshop (2002) / Chapter Skim
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The IOM report highlighted key concerns about the growing instability of the public health infrastructure that supports immunization programs throughout the United States. The report recommended that state and federal health agencies establish a new framework to guide their collaborative efforts, one that consists of six fundamental elements: · Controlling and preventing infectious disease · Assuring vaccine purchase · Assuring service delivery · Sustaining and improving coverage levels · Conducting surveillance of immunization coverage and vaccine safety · Establishing immunization finance policies and practices In June 2001, a group of 50 health officials, public health experts, health care providers, health plan representatives, and community leaders
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The report highlights strategies presented by workshop speakers and discussants for achieving immunization goals, including increases in state and federal public health budgets, the addition of quality improvement measures in health plans, performance-based contracting, public policy actions, and the creation of public-private partnerships. The Chicago workshop participants emphasized the need for collaborative efforts that would encourage private health plans and providers to assume responsibility for achieving high coverage rates among children and adults within the communities that they serve.
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