Vaccines should be available in health clinics for school age children, not just schools, especially in light of the infrequent presence of the school nurse

 

 

 

A signature on the Health Declaration is legally enough in order to vaccinate school children, even though many parents have expressed disagreement and even anger at this.

The rationale? Wide vaccination coverage. 

 But if the goal is wide vaccine coverage, then why are vaccines not widely available in both schools and health clinics? 

Health clinics have late afternoon hours, which are more convenient for parents should they need to complete vaccines, considering that school nurses' hours at each school are scarce.

 

Vaccines should be widely available in Israel, and they used to be.

 

If a school age child missed a vaccine on one of the very few vaccine days, their parents could bring them to a local clinic in the evening and have it completed.

 

Then, in about 2005, vaccines that were given in schools could only be completed in schools, and this led to less availability.

 

Stop the compartmentalization, bring vaccines back to the people.