POLICY makers in the US are being urged by research academics to consider expanding pharmacy practice laws to allow pharmacists to vaccinate adolescents as a way to improve geographic access to adolescent vaccines, particularly for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which has low uptake.
New original research has demonstrated that pharmacists are more geographically dispersed than primary care physicians in the US state of Texas and that including pharmacists among available adolescent vaccine providers would improve the geographic distribution of vaccine providers, especially in areas with an inadequate number of primary care physicians.
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