Racial and ethnic disparities in influenza and pneumococcal immunization rates among Medicare beneficiaries Insight on the issues (AARP Public Policy Institute) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) Healthcare Disparities -- statistics & numerical data Influenza Vaccines -- therapeutic use Medicare Pneumococcal Vaccines -- therapeutic use This Insight on the Issues discusses adult immunization recommendations for flu and pneumonia and current Medicare immunization coverage policies. It also presents data on immunization disparities, discusses factors that may contribute to the disparities, and highlights federal and state initiatives to address them. Washington, D.C. : AARP Public Policy Institute, c2008 Flowers, Lynda. Sinclair, Shelly-Ann. Umans, Ben. AARP (Organization) Public Policy Institute (AARP (Organization)) Technical Report Text Illustrations 11 p. nlm:nlmuid-101501082-pdf 101501082 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101501082 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0