The Importance of Overcoming Barriers to Adolescent Vaccination

U.S. National Immunization Survey: Vaccination Coverage Among Adolescents 13–17 years, United States, 2006–2008 . ∗The Healthy People 2010 objective is 90% vaccination coverage among adolescents aged 13-15 years. †Any new universally recommended vaccine for adolescents should be at a 90% coverage level within 5 years of the recommendation. Recommendations were published for MCV4 in 2005, for Tdap in 2006, and for HPV in 2007. HepB = hepatitis B; MMR = measles, mumps, rubella; Tdap = tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis; MCV4 = meningococcal quadrivalent vaccine; HPV4 = quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine.