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The State of Health Policy of Vaccination in the EU

italia2014.eu; AIFA; Ministero della Salute; Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini. November 2014. The State of Health Policy of Vaccination in the EU.

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Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Vaccination
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Vaccine, AIFA

Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease

Doshi P. BMJ. 2013 May 16;346:f3037. 

The CDC pledges “To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived.” But Peter Doshi argues that in the case of influenza vaccinations and their marketing, this is not so.

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Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Vaccination
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Marketing, Vaccine, flu, influenza, BMJ

ECOM, effective communication in times of an outbreak

Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 10:19

ECOM stands for “Effective Communication in Outbreak Management: development of an evidence-based tool for Europe”. The ECOM project is a research project under the EU 7th Framework Programme and runs from February 2012 till February 2016. By bringing together various disciplines, the project aims to go beyond the current knowledge in order to develop an evidence-based behavioural and communication package for health professionals and agencies throughout Europe in case of major outbreaks of infectious diseases.

ECOM's goal is reached through the following specific objectives:

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Other EU projects
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Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Media, Vaccination
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Video, Project

8th European Public Health Conference

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 (All day)

On October 14-17, Milan will host the 8th European Public Health Conference, organized by the European Public Health Conference Foundation, the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (SITI).

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General event
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Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
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Epidemiology, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
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Event

Playing with vaccines: a proposal for a new LEGO set

Monday, April 20, 2015 - 12:59

The beginning of the European Immunization Week, which will be followed in a few days by the World Immunization Week, is a perfect chance to remind the importance of vaccination and immunization programme. Among the several initiatives to keep the attention high on such a topic, one involved even the Lego group. Lego ideas is a website developed by the famous Danish toy company where fans may share ideas and proposals for new Lego set. The website allows everyone to post an idea and to gather support.

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Citizens, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Prevention, Vaccination
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Vaccine

World Immunization week

Friday, April 24, 2015 (All day)

The World Immunization Week, which will be held from 24-30 April 2015, will signal a renewed global, regional, and national effort to accelerate action to increase awareness and demand for immunization by communities, and improve vaccination delivery services.

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General event
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Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Human Rights, Prevention, Vaccination
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Event, WHO, Vaccine

Lessons to be learned from the Ebola epidemic

Monday, October 12, 2015 (All day)

The Health Department of the European Commission will organise a conference for Member States and partners on lessons to be learned from the Ebola epidemic. The event is organised in close collaboration with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council and will take place in Mondorf-les-Bains from 12 to 14 October 2015. There will be four sessions, each of them focusing on a specific topic:

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General event
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Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
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Epidemiology, Media, Microbiology, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
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Event, Ebola

Is the elimination goal for measles threatened?

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 14:17

The debate over measles vaccine is underway in many countries and, in some cases, the discussion came to court. It happened, for instance, in Italy in 2012, when a judge recognized the right to compensation (required by Italian law) for the family of a child vaccinated in 2002 with the trivalent vaccine MPR (measles-mumps-rubella) who were later diagnosed with autism. During the debate, the consultant of the family presented the research of the English physician Andrew Wakefield.

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Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Vaccination
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Vaccine, measles, WHO, Europe

PLOS and ECDC together with a special issue on vaccine hesitancy

Monday, March 2, 2015 - 17:49

The recent cases of measles outbreaks in US and Europe reignited the debate on vaccines, the science behind them and the conflict between the right to individual freedom and the state intervention. Amongst the several factors that contribute to the decrease of vaccination coverage – especially in some groups – vaccine hesitancy is one of particular interest, which should require much greater attention from public health and epidemiology, medical sociology, anthropology, and the behavioural, economic and political sciences.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Human Rights, Media, Microbiology, Prevention, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
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Vaccine

The Bulgarian local communication plan has been released

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 15:20

One of the ASSET’s purposes is to develop its approach on different levels, from the global to the local one. This will include both the analysis of specific experiences and the production of new initiatives. According to this aim, the Bulgarian National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) has just released the Local Communication Plan for Bulgaria, which is a complement of the Communication Strategy of the ASSET project.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination

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