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Immunization was introduced in PEI starting with the diphtheria and smallpox vaccine in the 1930s. Today, children in PEI are immunized against 15 different VPDs including polio, pertussis (whooping cough) measles, hepatitis B, meningococcal disease, and varicella (chickenpox).

The Chief Public Health Office (CPHO) is responsible for determining PEI’s immunization schedule based on recommendations made by the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI). The CPHO, in partnership with Health PEI’s Public Health Nursing, nurse practitioners, physicians, pediatricians, and obstetricians provides the best available information to help parents make informed immunization decisions for their children. Public health nurses introduce the childhood immunization program during pregnancy to parents who attend pre-natal classes and/or during early post-partum home visits. Public health nurses and others including the CPHO, pediatricians and family physicians, counsel parents who may be hesitant about childhood immunization.

Immunizations are administered by public health nurses during well-baby clinics, toddler and pre-school assessments and in schools. All childhood immunizations are recorded in an electronic provincial immunization registry and reported to the CPHO as required by the PEI Public Health Act and Immunization Regulations.

Definitions

In-province: children who have resided in Prince Edward Island since birth or who were born off-Island but received a PEI Health Card within 60 days of birth.

Out-of-province: children who were born outside of PEI and did not receive the PEI Health Card within 60 days of birth.

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