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Pennsylvania Christian Homeschooling Communities’ Perceptions of Vaccines

Record: Jeremiah D. McCoy, Julia E. Painter, and Kathryn H. Jacobsen, “Perceptions of Vaccination Within A Christian Homeschooling Community in Pennsylvania” in Vaccine 37(2019): 5770-5776. [Abstract here] Summary:  George Mason University graduate Jeremiah McCoy is the Health Policy Analyst at Better … Continue reading

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HOMESCHOOLERS AND VACCINATION IN CALIFORNIA: Exploring California’s New Law

Record: Pamela McDonald, Rupali J. Limaye, Saad B. Omer, Alison M. Buttenheim, Salini Mohanty, Nicola P. Klein, and Daniel A. Salmon, “Exploring California’s New Law Eliminating Personal Belief Exemptions to Childhood Vaccines and Vaccine Decision-Making among Homeschooling Mothers in California” … Continue reading

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HARO 2014 INSTALLMENT FOUR: Food and Health

Record: Coalition for Responsible Home Education, “A Complex Picture: Results of the 2014 Survey of Adult Alumni of the Modern Christian Homeschool Movement, Installment Four” Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out (1 April 2015). [Available Here] Summary: This post reviews the fourth installment of HARO’s survey of … Continue reading

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VACCINE-PREVENTABLE DISEASE: Tetanus Among Oklahoma Homeschoolers

Record:  Matthew G. Johnson, Kristy K. Bradley, Susan Mendus, Laurence Burnsed, Rachel Clinton, and Tejpratap Tiwari, “Vaccine-Preventable Disease Among Homeschooled Children: Two Cases of Tetanus in Oklahoma” in Pediatrics 132 , no. 6 (December 2013): e1686-e1689. Available Here. Summary:  Johnson … Continue reading

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HEALTH CARE ACCESS: Homeschoolers and Health

Record: Alissa Cordner, “The Health Care Access and Utilization of Homeschooled Children in the United States” in Social Science and Medicine 75 (2012): 269-273. Summary: Cordner, a graduate student in sociology at Brown University, here offers her first foray into … Continue reading

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HOMESCHOOLING PARENTS: Practices and Beliefs about Vaccinations

Record: Elizabeth L. Thorpe, et al., “Homeschooling Parents’ Practices and Beliefs about Childhood Immunizations” in Vaccine, 30, no. 6 (February 2012): 1149-1153. Summary: This paper, written by a group of physicians and medical researchers, noting the rise both in occurrences … Continue reading

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