Immunization
Local health departments vaccinate people in their communities, providing one of the most successful and cost-effective services to prevent disease and death. NACCHO is dedicated to strengthening local health departments' immunization infrastructure and building local health departments' capacity to implement evidence-based public health programs, policies, and services to meet national standards in preventing and controlling vaccine-preventable diseases.
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Learn more about what local health departments are doing to enhance vaccine confidence and understanding, view our Enhancing Immunization Through Local Initiatives page.
Learn more about NACCHO's Immunization program and some of the projects our team works on.
As the representatives of the over 3,330 local health departments (LHDs) across the country, NACCHO periodically surveys LHDs to better understand immunization programs, needs, opportunities, and capacity nationwide. NACCHO conducted nationally representative surveys in 2023 and 2017. Several of the items from the 2017 survey instrument were adapted for 2023 with the aim of identifying practice and capacity changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are links to the various reports and materials developed to share the data collected. The 2023 report contains comparisons to the 2017 data.
Please note, this toolkit was developed in 2014 and resources may be outdated. NACCHO hopes to be able to update this toolkit soon.
NACCHO has created a toolkit with resources, templates, and tools for local health departments to use and develop capacity to bill third party payers for immunization, STD, TB, and HIV services. More than 200 resources have currently been collected from state billing guides, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, state health departments, local health departments, insurance companies, and vendors of products such as electronic medical records and billing clearinghouses.
The Billing for Clinical Services Toolkit provides information to local health departments that are interested in starting the process to bill public and private sector payers for immunization and other clinical services.
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NACCHO has multiple policy statements on immunization issues, including:
- Access to School-Based Data
- Comprehensive Adolescent Health
- Comprehensive Immunization Programs- Addressing Immunizations Across the Lifespan
- Immunization Information Systems
- Influenza Vaccination for Health Care Personnel
- School and Child Care Immunization Requirements
- Smallpox Response
- Third-Party Billing for Immunization
- Vaccine Safety
- Vaccine Supply and Distribution
Visit our Policy and Advocacy page to see the policy statements and learn more about how to use policy statements.