Title:

Have Your Tots Had All Their Shots?

Creator:

Vermont. Department of Health

Date:

[ca. 1995]

Description:

Despite the amazing successes of immunization programs, noncompliance with recommended vaccination schedules has prompted public health departments to continue their promotional campaigns. Opposition to immunization is particularly common within the alternative medicine community, with many practitioners denying its safety or usefulness. Such opposition has been a factor in leading many people to become more concerned about risks of immunization than the risk of developing diseases that are no longer part of everyday experience in developed nations. In order to respond to this movement, public health departments continue to develop advertising campaigns for the promotion of vaccination. This recent poster from the Vermont Department of Health uses a storybook motif with illustration and rhyming headline, "Have your tots had all their shots?" While playful in design, the message in the caption is serious: immunizations protect children from a long list of diseases including polio, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, influenza, rubella, measles, and mumps.

Publisher:

Vermont. Department of Health

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Vermont Department of Health.

Genre:

Posters
Slides (photographs)

Subject:

Immunization Programs and Public Health

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. C00267

Legacy ID:

VCBBCR

NLM ID:

101584655X34

Profiles Collection:

Visual Culture and Health Posters

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X34

Story Section:

Infectious Disease