Table 6.

State health department quotes recommending education mandates.

“Yes, I would” “Because it – because we have seen a significant decrease in our waiver rates. And I think also even if we may not be impacting parents that are coming in for the education to change their mind, it’s that seed of information that they can think about, that they can hear from my healthcare worker who is informed with good information about vaccines.”	“I would. I think that it has been very helpful to give – to help give some parents some different information than maybe what they’re just hearing in their own communities or searching on the website, but actually to get some medically-validated information.”
“Again, the opportunity to change one or two persons’ mind only means more kids are vaccinated. It also allows you to determine maybe if there’s a common theme, like what the issue is. And also, I think it takes the educational burden off of where it shouldn’t have been in the first place – in the schools. So that’s kind of why I recommended it.”	“Absolutely. I think if you do not have a standardized policy where people – first of all, they know what to expect. They know what to understand and what to expect going in and that this will not be a rubber stamp, and that you can’t just go in and get a piece of paper and leave. I think an educational mandate is just necessary in every state.”