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Immunization Education and Promotion

The Immunization Branch produces a wide range of materials promoting immunizations.

Educational Materials
are free when ordered through your local health department.

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Many of these pieces are developed in coordination with our four major annual immunization campaigns: Preteen Vaccine Week, National Infant Immunization Week, Wash Your Hands, and our seasonal flu-prevention efforts. Some of the materials seen here in PDF format are available for free from your local county health department.

Select a link to below to see all the materials available on that topic.

Current Outreach Campaigns

Flu Shot Promotion
Links to educational materials such as public service announcements, flyers, posters, and more.

HPV Vaccine
Information about the vaccine and the disease.

National Infant Immunization Week/Toddler Immunization Month
About the event, with links to campaign documents and reports.

Preteen Vaccine Week
About the event, with links to educational materials for preteens

Immunizations for a Healthy Pregnancy
Infomation and materials for moms-to-be to keep themselves and their growing families healthy.

National Influenza Vaccine Week
Event information and educational materials

Tdap (Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis) Vaccine
Links to Tdap educational materials.

Respiratory Disease Prevention

Materials are in PDF format for easy downloading and printing.

Wash Your Hands (holiday jingle, video, and school lesson plan)

The Cougher
A professionally produced 60 video clip from the Florida Health Department using comedy to illustrate the importance of respiratory and hand hygiene for flu prevention

The Cougher (Shorter version)
A 30 second version of the FHD video clip listed above.

Sick Day
A humorous 60 second video clip produced by the Florida Health Department illustrating the scenario of a sick employee that refuses to go home and exposes his co-workers to disease-causing germs.

Urinal Guy
A comical 60 video clip produced by the Florida Health Department to illustrate the importance of hand hygiene.

Urinal Guy (Shorter Version)
A 30 second version of the FHD video clip listed above.

Urinal Guy (Shortest Version)
A 15 second version of the FHD video clip listed above

Cover Your Cough table tent
A one page color flyer that can be folded in half to be propped upright.

Don't Spread Germs flyer (pictorial)
A color poster with information on how to prevent the spread of germs.

Health Alert sign (general disease prevention, suitable for office posting)
English/Spanish | English/Chinese

Stop Disease sign (multi-language)
A color poster encouraging people to wash their hands to prevent disease spreading.

Wash Your Hands sign (English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese) A color poster encouraging people to wash their hands to prevent disease spreading.

Wash Your Hands sign (English, Spanish, Cambodian, Laotian, Punjabi, and Russian)
A color poster encouraging people to wash their hands to prevent disease spreading