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CHICAGO (AP) — Threatening to
withhold welfare payments to low-in
come families unless their children got
regular vaccines significantly in
creased immunization rates in Geor
gia, a study found.
Several states implemented similar
measures in the 1990s, when the feder
al government encouraged testing of in
novative welfare programs, including
those that improved the health of pub
lic aid recipients.
At the time, critics slammed the
practice as unfair, and an editorial ac
companying the study in last Wednes
day's Journal of the American Medical
Association questions the ethics of the
practice.
“The ethical stumbling block... rests
in the fact that financial penalties for de
layed immunization were threatened
only to individuals already at high risk
for economic deprivation," wrote Drs.
Matthew Davis and John Lantos. Lan-
tos is a medical ethicist at the Universi
ty of Chicago. Davis, formerly of UC, is
now at the University of Michigan.
But the study authors said poor
children face a
higher-risk of "vac-'
cine-preventable"
diseases.
"It is both a pub
lic health obligation
to encourage low-
income parents to
have their children
immunized for
these diseases and a
benefit to these fam-
“ Families
weren't unduly
burdened by this
requirement."
sess their impact, though only Geor
gia and Maryland have completed
their evaluations, said co-author
David Connell of Abt Associates, Inc.
of Cambridge, Mass.
At Georgia's request, the social sci
ence research firm
evaluated the pro
gram from its start
in 1993 through
1996, when it, like
many others, was
revamped under
President Clinton's
welfare reform leg
islation.
An evaluation of
Maryland's pro-
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— David Connell
of Abt Associates, Inc. in
Cambridge, Mass.
the
ilies and to the public as a whole,
authors said.
Several states implemented simi
lar programs and were required to as-
gram done by another firm found no
evidence that the threatened sanctions
increased immunization rates, Connell
and colleagues said.
In Georgia, few of the families stud
ied actually lost benefits. Connellat-
tributed the program's success totfe
threat as well as reminders from cast
workers and frequent public serviceii-
nouncements.
"Families weren't unduly burdened
by this requirement," he said.
Under the program, Georgia fami
lies applying for Aid to Families wil
Dependent Children benefits had ti
prove their preschool-aged children
up-to-date immunizations. Famife
were told they would lose their benefit
for any children who were notimmu
nized. Benefits varied widely but aw
aged roughly $25 monthly per child.
Vaccination rates evaluated vverefe
DPT (diphtheria, tetanus and perto
sis); poliovirus; MMR (measles
mumps, rubella); Hib (Haemophilusiit
fluenzae type b); and hepatitis B.
Puerto Ricans continue rally
against U.S. Navy bombing
News in Brief
Heat, fires plague Europe
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Likening their
cause to the United States' battle for independence,
hundreds of Puerto Ricans rallied on the Fourth of
July holiday outside a federal prison holding ac
tivists opposed to Navy bombing on the island of
Vieques.
"It is paradoxical to celebrate the independence
of the United States and honor the patriots of that na
tion while they imprison the patriots of this land!"
local Rep. Victor Garcia told a cheering crowd.
Hundreds more protesters marched in the
southern city of Ponce, led by Mayor Rafael
Cordero Santiago.
Another 16 activists Tuesday entered the Navy's
training ground on Vieques and were quickly ar
rested by military police. Navy spokesperson Gil
Mendez said.
Protest organizers said about 90 of 122 people
who had refused to post $1,000 bail on trespassing
charges had been arrested since Friday by U.S. mar
shals and imprisoned in the federal prison in subur
ban San Juan. The U.S. Marshals Service has not re
sponded to requests to confirm the number.
The detainees were among 183 people arrested
last week as they tried to enter the Navy bombing
range on Vieques to prevent military exercises. A fed-.
eral judge freed them temporarily, then ordered
them detained after they refused to post bail.
The Fourth of July is a holiday in Puerto Rico be
cause the Caribbean island of 4 million is a U.S. ter
ritory. The government's official July Fourth cele
bration took place a few miles away in San Juan's
colonial district.
The Navy has owned two-thirds of Vieques since
the 1940s and uses it for training its Atlantic Fleet.
The island's 9,400 residents live between the eastern
training ground and a weapons depot in the west.
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Hundreds!)!
wildfires burned across southern Europe on
Tuesday as the region remained in the gripo!
a heat wave that has driven temperatures as
high as 120 degrees.
In the Balkans, the sizzling temperatures ac
companied the worst drought to strike the re
gion in 50 years, which has already caused
record crop losses since it began in late May.
Ambulances patrolled the streets in southern
Romania cities to pick up people who faintedir
106-degree heat. Radio and television stations
urged old people and children to stay inside.
Romanian officials expect no let up in the
heat for at least a few weeks, and they urged
local governments and firefighters to stay or
alert and prepare water reserves.
About 100 fires still burned Tuesday in Ro
mania, despite successful efforts by firelight
ers to put out 98 other fires, said lonel Craci
un of the Firefighters General Headquarters.
Nobody was injured in the Romanian fires,
he said, but damage was “considerable,"it
part because a lack of water impeded fire
fighters’ efforts.
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