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Experts advise WHO on pandemic vaccine policies and strategies
2009-10-30
World Health Organization
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which advises WHO on policies and strategies for vaccines and immunization, devoted a session of its 27#29 October meeting to pandemic i...
Health Ministry backs off on punitive parts of flu shot policy
2012-11-30
BC Nurses' Union
Following a strong union campaign, the government has agreed to focus on education to encourage workers to be immunized
Nurses to Fraser Health: Come clean on drug company ties, funding for flu vaccine study
2012-11-30
BC Nurses' Union
The study involving Novartis Pharmaceuticals is headed up by Fraser's chief medical health officer, a key figure driving the policy to force healthcare workers to take the flu vaccine or wear a mask
Withdraw coercive flu shot policy: nurses
2012-11-14
BC Nurses' Union
The BC Nurses' Union is demanding BC health employers immediately withdraw their punitive policy on flu shots for healthcare workers, in light of scientific reviews questioning the credibility of the ...

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Anti-Vaccination Fever
The Shot Hurt Around the World
Hoyt, William John, Jr.
Article
2004
Skeptical Inquirer
Sensationalist media, religious fanatics, and alternative medical practitioners fanned the fires created by questionable research to spawn worldwide epidemics of a disease that has almost been forgott...
HealthSources.ca
Website
2017
A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important arti...
Preventive medicine
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Preventive medicine or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, rather than curing them or treating their symptoms.
Vaccination
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Vaccine
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Unclassified
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease.

Sources Bookshelf

Betrayal of Trust
The Collapse of Global Public Health
Garrett, Laurie
Book
2000
The story of recent failings of public health systems across the globe.

Media

Canadian Journal of Public Health
Scientific, peer-reviewed articles on a broad range of public health topics in the areas of health promotion and protection, disease prevention and public health policy.

Government Ministries & Agencies

Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
The Ministry is leading the health system into the new millennium with a consumer-centred and decentralized structure that will better manage health resources. Integration of the Ministry's activitie...


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