Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 2 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/pediatrics.1.009
Differences among racial and ethnic groups in vaccine hesitancy among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder
Ashley M. Butler1,*
- 1Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, United States
Corresponding Author
Ashley M. Butler, ambutler@texaschildrens.org
Received Date: May 04, 2021
Accepted Date: June 10, 2021
AM. Differences among racial and ethnic groups in vaccine hesitancy among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. J Clin Pediatr Neonatol. 2021; 1(2):37-38.
Copyright: © 2021 Butler AM. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Differences among racial and ethnic groups in vaccine hesitancy among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder
Achieving and maintaining recommended vaccination coverage is a major public health goal [1]. Indeed, rates of childhood vaccine coverage in the U.S. among young children have remained high and stable in recent years [2]. While racial/ethnic disparities in recommended childhood vaccine coverage in the general population have been absent or reduced over time, income disparities have changed at different rates within racial/ethnic groups and in some cases have increased [3].