Schools Take A Shot In The Arm On Vaccinations

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HealthOpin IV: Schools Take A Shot In The Arm On Vaccinations

23 May 2008

With the school year drawing to a close, American

parents are already voicing strong opinions about

the additional types of vaccinations children

should be required to receive, according to

<http://www.QualityHealth.com>QualityHealth.com's

latest HealthOpin survey.

<http://www.QualityHealth.com>QualityHealth.com

is a main competitor to sites like WebMD and Health.

The survey asked 10,103 Americans - dominantly

women - if they think schools should force

parents to have their children vaccinated for

certain viral diseases, some of which currently

aren't required. With the option to choose more

than one, 61 percent of respondents answered that

schools should require meningitis vaccines of

students, 58 percent thought schools should

require chicken pox vaccines, 41 percent thought

each child should have a flu vaccine and 33

percent thought HPV vaccines among female teens should be the norm.

Americans are also fearful of the side effects of

vaccines, with 37 percent of 10,047 respondents

answering " yes " to the question, " Are you worried

that getting a vaccine might make you sick as a

side effect? " Out of the 3,702 that said they are

concerned about getting sick as a side effect of

a vaccine, 63 percent listed the flu vaccine as a

major concern, 6 percent the chicken pox vaccine,

4 percent the mumps shot, 8 percent the measles

shot with 18 percent choosing 'other.'

" This survey shows that Americans are

increasingly concerned about their health and

well-being, as well as for their children's, and

have very specific ideas about which vaccinations

should be required by schools, " said Burch,

Marketing and Sales SVP for Marketing Technology

Solutions, the owner of

<http://www.QualityHealth.com>QualityHealth.com.

" Along with talking to their doctors, parents who

are concerned about the health of their children

can find answers to important health questions

and more at websites like <http://www.QualityHealth.com>QualityHealth.com. "

As the fourth installment in its " HealthOpin "

poll series, QualityHealth.com polled its

database of registered members between May 16 and

May 18, 2008, collecting responses from 10,103

consumers interested in health matters. Survey

respondents were 84 percent women and 16 percent

men, and the majority of them were between the

ages of 35 and 54. The survey's margin of error

is +/- 3 percent. According to comScore, Inc.,

the global leader of measurement in the digital

world, QualityHealth.com, with approximately 5

million unique visitors per month, ranks among

the most visited health sites on the Web.

About Marketing Technology Solutions

Marketing Technology Solutions (MTS) is a media

and technology company specializing in servicing

health consumers and advertisers through

proprietary algorithms that simultaneously

personalize health content and target advertising

based on a unique healthographic™ consumer

profile. Healthographics™ are a proprietary

combination of demographic and (age, gender,

address) and consumers physical and emotional

health profile. Our healthographic profile has

upward of 250 individual data points. MTS

specializes in connecting clients' brands with

health-conscious consumers through data-driven

patient education, targeted customer acquisition,

syndicated research, and permission-based

interactive marketing. MTS gains consumer

insights through its network of MTS owned Web

sites, QualityHealth.com, Healthpages.com and

Nubella.com, whose 10 million members rely on the

sites for health and wellness news, tips, tools,

support groups, and patient education.

<http://www.mtscorp.com>Marketing Technology Solutions

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