AsthmaInfluenza Vaccination Among US Children With Asthma, 2005–2013
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Data Source
Data are from the 2005–2013 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a nationally representative survey with a complex sample design, administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Data were from in-house NCHS files, which can be accessed in the NCHS Research Data Center. Within each participating family, one child 0 to 17 years of age (the sample child) was randomly selected, and health-related information was obtained from in-person interviews with a knowledgeable adult
Results
Approximately 10% of children (standard error [SE] 0.2) had asthma across the 2005–2013 influenza seasons (Online Appendix Table 2), or an average of approximately 6.6 million children during each influenza season.
Discussion
Between 2005 and 2013, the percentage of children in the United States with asthma who received an influenza vaccination increased approximately 3 percentage points per year. The overall gain for children with asthma of approximately 23 percentage points (from 32% in 2004–2005 to nearly 55% in 2012–2013) was smaller than the overall gain for children without asthma of 33 percentage points (from approximately 12% in 2004–2005 to 45% in 2012–2013). The changes in the ACIP recommendations in 2006
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