Surveillance Materials & Resources

Historical Comparisons of Vaccine Preventable Disease Morbidity in the United States

A comparison of the morbidity and mortality before and after widespread implementation of national vaccine recommendations for 13 vaccine-preventable diseases for which recommendations were in place prior to 2005.

Manuscript

Roush SW, Murphy TV, Vaccine-Preventable Disease Table Working Group a. Historical Comparisons of Morbidity and Mortality for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in the United States. JAMA. 2007; 298(19): 2155-2163. Doi:10.1001/jama.298.18.2155.

Presentation Slides

These slides are updated annually to provide vaccine-preventable disease surveillance data for

• Comparison of 20^th Century Annual Morbidity and Current Morbidity (slide one [1 page])
• Comparison of Pre-Vaccine Era Estimated Annual Morbidity with Current Estimate (slide two [1 page])

References

• CDC. MMWR. January 6, 2017/ 65(52);ND-942 – ND-941. (MMWR 2016 week 52 provisional data)
• CDC. MMWR. February 6, 2009 / 58(RR02); 1-25:

Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Course

Broadcast February 2012

This self-study program provides information on case investigation, outbreak control, and disease reporting for vaccine-preventable diseases. The course stresses the most epidemiologically important data to collect and discusses methods of enhancing surveillance and completing case investigations.

Continuing Education (CE) Credit is not available for this course.