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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Vaccination Programs: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Settings

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: March 2015

Workgroups: Immunization and Infectious Diseases Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends vaccination programs in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) settings —used with other components — to increase vaccination rates in children. These programs include: 

  • Assessing whether infants and children have gotten vaccines
  • Providing vaccines on site or referring people to other vaccine providers
  • Other interventions, like reminders, tracking and outreach, or monthly vouchers to prompt more WIC visits when vaccines aren’t up-to-date

CPSTF noted that these programs can be provided in WIC clinics or can be located and coordinated with other health care services.

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Objectives related to this resource (5)

Reduce the proportion of children who get no recommended vaccines by age 2 years — IID‑02
Target met or exceeded
Maintain the vaccination coverage level of 1 dose of the MMR vaccine in children by age 2 years — IID‑03
Little or no detectable change
Maintain the vaccination coverage level of 2 doses of the MMR vaccine for children in kindergarten — IID‑04
Little or no detectable change
Increase the coverage level of 4 doses of the DTaP vaccine in children by age 2 years — IID‑06
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of people who get the flu vaccine every year — IID‑09
LHI label
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

1.

Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2015). Vaccination Programs: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Settings. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/vaccination-programs-special-supplemental-nutrition-program-women-infants-children-wic