Prizes! Take part in 100,000 vaccine challenge with I Boost Immunity!
April 23rd– 30th is National Immunization Awareness Week (NIAW) and this serves as another reminder for Vancouver Coastal Health staff to encourage their clients to stay up-to-date on their immunizations. To help celebrate, I Boost Immunity is supplying ‘Fully Immunized’ I Boost Immunity t-shirts to Vancouver Coastal Health Units to be given out to children under two that get all of their shots.
Developed in conjunction with Vancouver Coastal Health, I Boost Immunity (IBI) is a provincially supported immunization advocacy platform founded on the premise that raising local awareness about the benefits of immunization can help vaccinate children around the world.
Here’s how it works: the site encourages ordinary people like you (yes, health care staff can participate) to do a series of fun and informative online quizzes, or share articles and stories through your social networks about the importance of vaccination. The more you do, the more vaccines you earn in support of UNICEF Canada, it’s that simple.
The online quizzes start easy, but get more challenging as you ‘level up’. You can also form teams and earn achievement badges along the way; do practically anything on IBI and you’ll earn vaccines.
Create a Health Unit team and win a prize!
It’s super easy and this year we have an added incentive – we’ll be holding a contest to see which health units earn the most vaccines by the end of Immunization Week. Members of the top 5 teams in BC will be awarded with our coveted I Boost Immunity water bottles! We invite diverse Public Health staff and professionals (e.g. admin, support, speech, audiology, nutrition, etc.) to form teams.
Why this Approach?
I Boost Immunity was developed as part of a larger effort to find new ways to counter the surge of anti-vaccine sentiment on the internet. Studies show that this type of online activity can influence attitudes, beliefs and behaviour regarding immunization. If we get enough knowledge being shared and supported, we can stop the very real spread of diseases in our communities.