"A Population-Based Study of Access to Immunization Among Urban Virginia Children Served by Public, Private, and Military Health Care Systems."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Pediatrics, "Background: Pediatric immunization rates have increased in the United States since 1990. Nevertheless, national survey data indicate that up to one-third of 2-year-old children in some states and urban areas lack at least one recommended dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP)-, polio-, or measles-containing vaccines. Immunization has become a key measure of preventive pediatric health care in the United States. To achieve and maintain the national immunization goal that 90% of children receive all recommended immunizations by 2 years of age, the role of the health care system in immunization delivery...

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