Interventions with on-site, reduced cost, and actively promoted influenza vaccinations, when implemented alone or as part of a multicomponent intervention, are recommended based on sufficient evidence of their effectiveness in increasing influenza vaccination coverage among workers in worksites. There is insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of interventions with actively promoted, off-site influenza vaccinations to increase influenza vaccination coverage among workers in worksites because only one study qualified for review and it had a small effect size. Interventions to promote influenza vaccination among workers can include making vaccines available to workers and announcing this availability in work settings, using things such as newsletters, e-mails, or paycheck inserts. These interventions attempt to correct myths, to reduce the financial cost, or to change worksite norms regarding vaccination. Vaccines may be offered: on-site or off-site; at cost, reduced cost, or no cost; with health education and mobile units; in clinics; and at multiple locations.

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Guide To Community Preventive Services [Internet]. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US), Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office, Community Guide Branch; [updated 2013 Mar 14]. Interventions to Promote Seasonal Influenza Vaccinations among Healthcare Workers; [reviewed 2011 Feb 9; cited 2013 Feb 11]. Available from http://www.thecommunityguide.org/worksite/flu-hcw.html