Evidence-Based Vaccination Information

Immunization Information Resource

The Immunization Information Resource website is provided as a public service by the Chiropractic Health Care Section of the American Public Health Association. The site compiles annotated bibliographies of citations from the scientific literature, as well as other authoritative peer-reviewed information sources on this topic. Our intent is to create a resource of information for health care professionals that is current, accurate, objective, evidence-based, and as user-friendly as possible.

The underlying premises for establishing this website are as follows:

(a) Vaccination is not within the scope of chiropractic practice. However, Doctors of Chiropractic may be perceived by their patients as knowledgeable experts on matters having to do with health and health care choices. It is likely that patients may seek information or counsel from their chiropractor on the issue of vaccination.

(b) In circumstances where chiropractors or other health care providers are consulted about vaccination, they have a professional responsibility to provide current, accurate, unbiased (balanced) information based on sound scientific evidence. This information is necessary in supporting the patients' ability to make a truly informed choice.

(c) Chiropractors and patients may have difficulty in finding, acquiring, sorting, and "making sense of" the amount of complex information on this topic now available on the internet. Doctors and patients may both benefit from easy access to a compiled annotated listing of sources of the scientific literature of vaccination.

Co-authors (alphabetically), professional affiliations, and credentials

Thanks to Rich Pistolese, DC and George McClelland, DC for their participation and intellectual contributions to the Immunization Information Resource project.