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Tyler Moore; Katherine Graff; Teal R. Bell – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: We aimed to better understand the impact of statewide legislation removing personal belief exemptions (PBEs) for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) school immunization requirement and factors associated with resulting health-seeking behaviors. Methods: We used chi-squared tests and logistic regression models to determine individual-…
Descriptors: Preventive Medicine, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Educational Legislation
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Honda, Hideo; Shimizu, Yasuo; Rutter, Michael – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: A causal relationship between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and occurrence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has been claimed, based on an increase in ASD in the USA and the UK after introduction of the MMR vaccine. However, the possibility that this increase is coincidental has not been eliminated. The unique…
Descriptors: Incidence, Autism, Immunization Programs, Foreign Countries