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SUBMITTER: Bednarczyk RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4753144 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar/Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bednarczyk Robert A RA Orenstein Walter A WA Omer Saad B SB
Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP 20170301 2
In the United States, human papillomavirus vaccination was routinely recommended for adolescent females in 2006 and provisionally recommended for adolescent males in 2009. We evaluated the hypothesis that gender-specific human papillomavirus vaccination recommendations would impact gender-specific uptake of other vaccines using National Immunization Survey-Teen public use data sets (2008-2012). Female adolescents had higher coverage than males of at least 1 other adolescent vaccine in 2008 (3.0% ...[more]