Abstract
Measles vaccination in Erie County, New York, has proceeded routinely through physicians in private practice and local health clinics. The geographic and economic patterns of measles incidence and vaccination were determined for this metropolitan area by means of a stratified random sample population survey. For children under 5 years of age, measles incidence followed an economic gradient with the upper economic strata having the lowest incidence and the lower strata having the highest. The overall measles vaccination rate was 33% for those under 10 and reached a peak of 76% among children 2 years of age. Considerably higher vaccination levels were recorded in the suburbs than in the lower economic urban and rural areas, with a decreasing gradient from the higher to the lower economic strata in each geographic area.
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