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Immunization Project
The Santa Barbara County Immunization Project's goal is to assure appropriate, on time immunizations for infants, children, adolescents and adults in the county. Outreach and education programs are complemented by population based assessments to measure vaccine coverage. The project acts as a resource to provide accurate and timely immunization information to private and public health care providers, to schools and child care centers, and to the general public.
We have record or near record low levels of vaccine preventable childhood diseases in the United States, but that does not mean these have disappeared. Many of the viruses and bacteria are still circulating in this country or are only a plane ride away. That's why it's important that children, especially infants and young children, receive recommended immunizations on time. In our mobile society, over a million people each day travel to and from other countries, including countries where many vaccine preventable diseases remain relatively common. Without vaccines, epidemics of many preventable diseases could return, resulting in increased and unnecessary illness, disability, and death among children.
Vaccine preventable diseases, not long ago, disabled and killed
millions of American children. Thanks to our country's high childhood
immunization coverage levels, these diseases are now very uncommon.
