| Purpose:
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 "vaccination
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.
Background:
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 healthcare
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. |
