Geographic disparities and predictors of vaccination exemptions in Florida: a retrospective study

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Introduction

Materials and Methods

Study area

Data sources and cartographic displays

Predictors of total and non-medical county-level vaccination exemption risks

Ethical statement

Results

Geographic patterns of vaccination exemptions

Predictors of total vaccination exemptions

Predictors of non-medical vaccination exemptions

Discussion

Geographic disparities in vaccination exemptions

Total exemptions

Non-medical exemptions

Predictors of vaccination exemptions

Total exemptions

Non-medical exemptions

Strengths and limitations

Conclusions

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Agricola Odoi is an Academic Editor for PeerJ.

Author Contributions

Corinne B. Tandy conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Agricola Odoi conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Ethics

The following information was supplied relating to ethical approvals (i.e., approving body and any reference numbers):

University of Tennessee, Knoxville Institutional Review Board.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

The study data are available at Florida Health CHARTS: http://www.flhealthcharts.com/charts/default.aspx.

Funding

The authors received no funding for this work.

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