...if we can count the children, we can reach them. If we can reach them, we can immunize them...
Mission Statement
Every Child By Two's mission is to ensure that all of America's children
are fully immunized on schedule, from birth to two years of age and to
institutionalize immunization delivery nationwide. Our main goal
over the coming years is to promote the establishment of immunization registries
throughout the country.
Contents:
1. A Heritage of Success
2. Taking a Closer Look
2. Why Worry About
Vaccine Delivery?
3. Registries are the Gift
of a Lifetime
3. Benefits of
Registries to Providers, Plans and Purchasers
4. Why are Registries the
Answer?
4. Benefits of
Registries to Parents
5. Registries Save Money
and Time
5. Benefits to
the Bottom Line
6. Please Give Your State's
Children a Shot
7. Create Your Legacy
7. What You Can
Do
8. Sponsors
8. Contact Information
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leaders of the importance of immunization registries.) A Heritage of Success Efforts in the past 30 years to immunize our nation's children have had a dramatic effect. Women like Rosalynn Carter and Betty Bumpers, co-founders of Every Child By Two, have given their time and effort and have used their influence to help every state mandate vaccination by school entry. Thanks to their efforts, and the work of many others like them, our nation now boasts a 95 percent plus immunization rate for children entering school. We've come so far in our goal to reduce infant mortality through timely immunizations, and we should be proud of the work we've done. However, there's`` still much to be accomplished to give our children - especially those under the age of 2 - the gift of a healthy start in life. With your help, we'd like to maintain the momentum that's helped us provide preventive care to our children. Many concerned individuals have dedicated their time and energy towards the development of computerized immunization registries to track children's vaccines. We believe that these state and community based registries are what's
needed to ensure our children receive timely vaccinations. Every
Child By Two offers you the opportunity to give the children of your state
this thoroughly attainable gift. We ask you to lend your visibility
and credibility to this critical issue.
"It's easy to ensure coverage of school-age children because they must provide vaccination records to enter school. How do you find and immunize all the 2-year olds without a registry? Without a comprehensive registry it's difficult for health providers to check which shots a child may already have, so some are overimmunized for some diseases and underimmunized for others." -- Rosalynn Carter - Co-Founder Every
Child By Two
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