The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention created this media toolkit to help partners communicate the importance of the flu vaccine. It includes posters, flyers, factsheets, and materials designed specifically for children, and images for use on social media. They are easily printable in PDF format, and some are available in both English and Spanish.

Socioeconomic status is often not taken into account when examining influenza rates in a geographic area. This study sought to explore this information and took place over the course of two different flu seasons; the study was a partnership among 14 states to examine influenza hospitalizations in geographic areas with census-tract level poverty. It was found that with this type of poverty, higher rates of severe outcomes and hospitalization from the flu occurred.

This study, published in the Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics Journal, details the vaccination rates and attitudes towards the influenza vaccine among a low-income community in Central New York State. A total of 1,041 people were surveyed as part of the study, and 655 were found to be unvaccinated for the current flu season. Of those unvaccinated, 312 indicated they did not plan to receive the vaccine, and 46% of these respondents chose not to receive it because of misconceptions about the vaccine. Of those who intended to receive the vaccine but had not yet done so, 95% stated they had not received it because of a lack of access.

This free resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information about American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) and the flu and how to prevent it in an easy-to-read infographic. It is available in a printer file, poster file to print, or text file that can be read without the graphics.

This free resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information about pregnant women and the flu and how to prevent it in an easy-to-read infographic. It is available in a printer file, poster file to print, or text file that can be read without the graphics.

This free resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides information about the flu and how to prevent it in an easy-to-read infographic. It is available in a printer file, poster file to print, or text file that can be read without the graphics. Additionally, the CDC has created similar files targeting pregnant women and Native Americans.

This article details the outcomes of a community-based cohort study that was conducted with 275 primarily low-income, urban households to study vaccine effectiveness against influenza in the 2013-2014 season. The vaccine effectiveness within this sample was found to be 62.5%, which was consistent with the national reported estimate of effectiveness of 61%. This has implications for the generalizability of vaccine effectiveness studies, as these studies often do not include non-medically attended patients from low-income areas.

This handout from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discusses how the flu is spread and provides tips for reducing one’s exposure to the disease. The CDC provides information on everyday actions that can be taken to prevent the flu, how to stop the spread of flu germs in a workplace, and how to protect children from the flu.

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine and the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Health Matters Initiative prepared this report, which looks at the growing crisis related to the U.S. opioid epidemic. It outlines specific and proven recommendations for how to combat the epidemic most effectively, including expanding coverage and accessibility of overdose and reversal drugs and changing the way healthcare professionals, employers, and advocates talk about addiction to reduce stigma. This report is intended as a resource for individuals with opioid-use disorders and their families; clinicians who prescribe opioids and those who treat people with opioid-use disorders; health system administrators; policymakers; researchers; journalists; law enforcement officials; employers; service providers; and agencies at the local, state, and federal level.