Influential News: January 2012

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• Alternative Title:
  NIVDP newsletter
• Corporate Authors:
  National Influenza Vaccination Disparities Partnership
• Description:
  Minority Media are the Messengers
  
  The powerful black media, a trusted source among African Americans, is getting the word out that it is important for African Americans to get their influenza vaccination. A National Influenza Vaccination Week op-ed by Dr. Nadine Gracia (Acting) Director, Office of Minority Health, HHS, recently ran in African American publications citing that “During 2009, when H1N1 flu was widespread, African Americans were hospitalized from flu complications twice as often as non-Hispanic whites.” http://www.jacksonadvocateonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2A-flu_theJacksonAdvocate-1.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Healthcare Disparities Health Promtion Influenza, Human/prevention & Control Vaccination
• Series:
  Influential News
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  National Influenza Vaccination Disparities Partnership
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/31056/cdc_31056_DS1.pdf
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