Reducing the Number of Preventable Childhood Illnesses Is a Major

question 16

Multiple Choice

Reducing the number of preventable childhood illnesses is a major national goal in Healthy People 2020. What will the school nurse teach families regarding immunizations in order to reach this goal?

• A) A minor illness with a low-grade fever is a contraindication to receiving an immunization according to Healthy People 2020.
• B) Vaccines should be given one at a time for optimum active immunity in the prevention of illness and disease.
• C) Premature infants and low-birth-weight infants should receive half doses of vaccines for protection from communicable diseases.
• D) It is important to maintain vaccination coverage for recommended vaccines in early childhood and to maintain them through kindergarten.

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