scholarly journals Low Influenza Vaccination Rates Among Child Care Workers in the United States: Assessing Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie A. de Perio ◽  
Douglas M. Wiegand ◽  
Stefanie M. Evans
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
And Behaviors

scholarly journals Benefits for Child Care Workers: How the State Could Help through a Medicaid Waiver

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-56
Author(s):  
Amanda McDougald Scott
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Child Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Care Providers ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Child Care Professionals

Child care is expensive, and many parents struggle to afford care; furthermore, even though child care costs are high, child care providers in the United States (US) are not making a living wage. Child care professionals (ages 0-5 in child care homes or centers) earn less income than Kindergarten teachers, pre-K teachers, non-farm animal caretakers, and the US estimate of all workers’ annual median salary (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2020a, 2020b). Workers in comparable professions are also usually offered benefits for their labor, which child care professionals are not (Kwon, 2019; National Survey of Early Care and Education Project Team, 2020; Otten et al., 2019; Whitebook, McLean, Austin, & Edwards, 2018).  This often necessitates use of public assistance.  Because many child care workers are not provided access to health insurance or other health-related benefits through their employers, they must seek access to health care in other ways.  Additionally, turnover rates among child care workers are high, and wages and benefits are a large part of the reason why child care professionals leave their jobs (McDougald Scott, 2021a). This policy analysis (a) reviewed the current struggle (as of May 2021) that child care workers in the United States (in general) and South Carolina (in particular) experience compared with employees in other fields; and (b) explore options (particularly a Medicaid waiver option) that might improve the situation.  South Carolina (SC) is one of the 13 states that have not expanded Medicaid; most of the 13 states are in Southern United States (US) region, which makes an extrapolation of SC research reasonable.  Lessons learned from SC childcare data should reflect closely what may be found in other non-expansion states, but research from the literature review will not be SC-specific. Relevant peer-reviewed, government documents, state and national data, and grey literature were reviewed and analyzed. There have been ongoing efforts (although insufficient even in more successful efforts) with mixed results to improve the pay for child care workers for decades.  Progress for earning a living wage will require a systems overhaul for early education, but child care providers cannot wait for workforce environmental improvements.  Action must be taken now to augment the shortage of healthcare access for child care providers.  In SC, Medicaid helps some child care workers receive access to health care, but expansion through Medicaid waiver 1115 would include many more child care workers who do not currently have access. 

Family Day Care in the United States

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (9) ◽  
pp. 550-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Frankel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Day Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Child Care Workers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Family Day Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Social

The author discusses the current status of family day care, including its demographics, organization, regulations, quality-control issues, and relevant research on its effects on children, families, and child-care workers. Family day care is a pervasive underground child-care system that merits far more attention by the social work profession in state and national child-care policy considerations. Social workers are in a unique position to help family-day-care providers enter mainstream child care in the United States.

scholarly journals PIN41 INFLUENZA VACCINATION RATES AMONG HIGH RISK GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. A121
Author(s):  
M. DiBonaventura ◽  
J.S. Wagner ◽  
A. Goren
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccination Rates

scholarly journals Brief report: Influenza vaccination and health care workers in the united states

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. King ◽  
Steffie J. Woolhandler ◽  
Arleen F. Brown ◽  
Luohua Jiang ◽  
Kristine Kevorkian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Workers

scholarly journals Demographics, perceptions, and socioeconomic factors affecting influenza vaccination among adults in the United States

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaja M. Abbas ◽  
Gloria J. Kang ◽  
Daniel Chen ◽  
Stephen R. Werre ◽  
Achla Marathe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Influenza Vaccination ◽  
Vaccine Efficacy ◽  
Herd Immunity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vaccine Cost ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Vaccination Rates ◽  
Healthy People 2020

Objective The study objective is to analyze influenza vaccination status by demographic factors, perceived vaccine efficacy, social influence, herd immunity, vaccine cost, health insurance status, and barriers to influenza vaccination among adults 18 years and older in the United States. Background Influenza vaccination coverage among adults 18 years and older was 41% during 2010–2011 and has increased and plateaued at 43% during 2016–2017. This is below the target of 70% influenza vaccination coverage among adults, which is an objective of the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Methods We conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of adults 18 years and older in the United States on factors affecting influenza vaccination. We conducted bivariate analysis using Rao-Scott chi-square test and multivariate analysis using weighted multinomial logistic regression of this survey data to determine the effect of demographics, perceived vaccine efficacy, social influence, herd immunity, vaccine cost, health insurance, and barriers associated with influenza vaccination uptake among adults in the United States. Results Influenza vaccination rates are relatively high among adults in older age groups (73.3% among 75 + year old), adults with education levels of bachelor’s degree or higher (45.1%), non-Hispanic Whites (41.8%), adults with higher incomes (52.8% among adults with income of over $150,000), partnered adults (43.2%), non-working adults (46.2%), and adults with internet access (39.9%). Influenza vaccine is taken every year by 76% of adults who perceive that the vaccine is very effective, 64.2% of adults who are socially influenced by others, and 41.8% of adults with health insurance, while 72.3% of adults without health insurance never get vaccinated. Facilitators for adults getting vaccinated every year in comparison to only some years include older age, perception of high vaccine effectiveness, higher income and no out-of-pocket payments. Barriers for adults never getting vaccinated in comparison to only some years include lack of health insurance, disliking of shots, perception of low vaccine effectiveness, low perception of risk for influenza infection, and perception of risky side effects. Conclusion Influenza vaccination rates among adults in the United States can be improved towards the Healthy People 2020 target of 70% by increasing awareness of the safety, efficacy and need for influenza vaccination, leveraging the practices and principles of commercial and social marketing to improve vaccine trust, confidence and acceptance, and lowering out-of-pocket expenses and covering influenza vaccination costs through health insurance.

COVIDiots and Cogency

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-85
Author(s):  
Roy Schwartzman ◽  
Jenni M. Simon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Heuristics And Biases ◽  
Health Campaigns ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Public Health Campaigns ◽  
Health Experts

The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States spawns a perplexing polemic. Intransigent coronavirus skeptics who defy public health recommendations often get cast as ideological zealots or as perniciously ignorant. Both characterizations overlook a more fundamental epistemic opposition. The authors recast the conflict between COVID-19 skeptics and public health advocates as the rhetorical incompatibility between the deliberative, scientifically grounded public health experts and the intuitive, emotion-driven mental heuristics of the non-compliant. This study examines the discourse of COVID-19 misinformation purveyors on broadcast media and online. Their main contentions rely on heuristics and biases that collectively not only undermine trust in particular medical experts, but also undercut trust in the institutions and reasoning processes of science itself. The findings suggest ways that public health campaigns can become more effective by leveraging some of the intuitive drivers of attitudes and behaviors that scientists and argumentation theorists routinely dismiss as fallacious.

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