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Recovering Routine Immunization Rates — State Strategies to Move beyond COVID-19 

NASHP

In the United States, new data indicate that nearly 27 percent of surveyed households had at least one or more children who missed or delayed a preventive visit because of the pandemic. New strategies are needed to identify and catch-up children who have missed routine immunizations to prevent future outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity. Funding for state and local health departments decreased 17 percent between 2009 and 2019, while experts estimate that an additional $4.5