Diseases & Vaccinations

Keep you and your family healthy by staying up to date with your routine vaccinations.  Learn here how you can protect yourself against vaccine preventable diseases and talk to your doctor, public health nurse or pharmacist for more information or to book an appointment.

• Frequently asked questions about vaccination
• A Parent's Guide to Immunization
• BC HealthFiles in different languages
• Immunization Coverage Rates in BC (BCCDC)
• Personal stories about vaccine-preventable diseases
• A Soccer Mom's Guide to Immunization (video)
• How Immunization Works (animation from UK National Health Service)
• Vaccination greatly reduces diseases, disability, death and inequity worldwide (World Health Organization report)
• Vaccine Schedules
• Why Immunize? 
• Look at the risks from the disease versus the risks from the vaccine

Disease Scene Investigation Videos (DSI)

How Immunization Works Play video (6:15)	Meningitis C Play video (6:30)	Hepatitis B  Play video (5:45)