title: From formal to friendly: creating materials that work with adolescents.
abstract: The Immunization Action Coalition, publisher of over 100 health educational pieces on immunization, offers a way to take a formal recommendation to vaccinate all 11- and 12-year-olds against hepatitis B by creating a friendly educational piece that can make adolescents and their parents sit up, take notice, roll up their sleeves, and run to doctors to demand their hepatitis B shots. The brochure created follows dictates of passion, words, graphics, feedback, and no copyright. The coalition's semi-annual newsletter, Needle Tips & the Hepatitis B Coalition News, encourages adaptation or use of the brochure, which is approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
authors.affiliation: Needle Tips & Hepatitis B Coalition News, St. Paul, MN, USA.
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Vaillancourt
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Wexler
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017325:Hepatitis B Vaccines; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013664:Teaching Materials
chemical_list: D017325:Hepatitis B Vaccines