NewsRx
September 6, 2010
Investigators publish new data in the report ‘Examining future adolescent human papillomavirus vaccine uptake, with and without a school mandate.’ In this recent report published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, researchers in the United States conducted a study “To develop a model of adolescent (HPV) human papillomavirus vaccine utilization that explored future HPV vaccination rates, with and without a school mandate, for the vaccine at middle school entry. A dynamic, population-based, compartmental model was developed that estimated over a 50-year time horizon HPV vaccine uptake among female adolescents living in the United States.”