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European Immunization Week

The fact that some vaccine preventable diseases have disappeared or are very rare following these vaccination programs can lead to parents believing there is no more need to vaccinate. Therefore, it is of huge importance that events like the European Immunization, helping maintain vaccination awareness and giving accurate and understandable information on immunization, exist. In this way, public confidence in immunization is less susceptible to be influenced by groups, websites or campaigns against vaccination. By acknowledging that every child deserves a healthy start in life, countries can use the European Immunization Week to increase awareness of the importance of immunization and to strengthen their immunization systems.

Country: 
Europe WHO Region
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Human Rights, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, public health, engagement

Towards an extension of mandatory vaccination in Italy?

Monday, February 6, 2017 - 10:44

Immunization rates in Italy are decreasing at a worrying trend: international targets for measles eradication and safety thresholds in childhood vaccination are vanishing. Authorities, doctors and families are concerned that a coverage below 86% for MPR (measles, parotitis and rubella) vaccine can impair herd immunity, putting younger babies, immunocompromised people and not-responders at risk.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, Vaccine safety, communication, engagement, public health

Zika: an emerging disease to be tackled both in laboratories and in society

January 24, 2017

Ilaria Capua, as director of the One Health Excellence Centre at the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida, USA, is very busy in coordinating interdisciplinary research, facing the epidemic of zika virus disease spreading in South America and the Caribbean and reaching Florida. Scientists are testing new diagnostic tests and working on vaccines, but the risk of serious birth defects in the offspring of infected pregnant women calls also for responsible procreative choices, involving lawmakers, governments and religious leaders as well.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, zika, Vaccine, science-in-society

Flu Effect on the web: an Italian analysis on influenza and vaccination

Thursday, December 29, 2016 - 09:01

The internet deals a lot with flu, but mostly talks about care and little about prevention. This is the result of a study made by Voices from the Blogs, a spin-off of the University of Milan, on the web-sentiment on influenza and vaccination in Italy.

Target: 
Citizens, School and Education
Topic: 
Prevention, Social Media, Vaccination
Tags: 
flu, influenza, Vaccine, Vaccine safety, Social media

Sex, clinical trials and medicines regulation: part I

Monday, November 28, 2016 - 14:39

Attention to sex and gender in biomedical, health and clinical research is an important quality and safety issue. Medicinal products are safer and more effective for everyone when clinical research includes diverse population groups. Historically, women’s health issues have focused on reproductive health, followed by gender issues such as behaviour, socio-economic factors, culture, lifestyles and influence biological development and health.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Prevention, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
gender issues, clinical trials, Vaccine

Piero Bassetti: vaccines and the media

November 21, 2016

A change in the attitude towards science, coming from an understanding of its limits, interferes with people’s trust towards vaccination. Hesitancy and refusal in this field have their roots in a relationship between science and society that is different from what it used to be. A great role in this is played by media, which are somehow forced to publish what people want to hear and read, despite scientific evidence, in order to make profit, or just to survive. 

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Media, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, Vaccine, public health

Engaging citizens in pandemic preparedness and response

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 16:03

In the wake of the 2009-2010 H1N1-pandemic, also known as the swine flu, a web of mistrust between the public and health authorities was spun. National pandemic plans were usually based on a single scenario that was more severe than the actual 2009 pandemic, and that was extrapolated from the severity of previous outbreaks like SARS and Avian flu. In effect the 2009 pandemic was nicknamed the false-pandemic or ‘the pandemic there never was’. However, national health authorities had declared a pandemic and bought vaccines for billions.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
citizen consultation, science-in-society, Vaccine, public health

Health mediation in France

Since its creation in 2000, the National Human Rights Romeurope alerted the authorities to the need to take better account of difficulties of access to care of foreign Roma people living in France. Following extensive discussions and in order to verify the relevance of these recommendations for access to rights and health, the Directorate General of Health supported in 2008-2009 an action of  project engineering intended to present plans of development of mediation pilot projects.

Country: 
France
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Human Rights, Local Activities, Vaccination
Tags: 
Roma, Vaccine, best practice

Population consultation, two-way communication and decision

In USA, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) surveyed the population on their attitude towards vaccination, in order to adapt their communication messages and clearly and accurately promote the benefits of vaccination in ways that resonate with family decision makers. A total of 1,278 parents and guardians were interviewed using an online established survey panel.

Country: 
United States
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Local Activities, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, best practice

The Health Mediators project in Romania (RHM – Roma Health Mediators)

In 1991, a first mediation program was initially conceived by the Romani Criss NGO mainly focused as a conflict mitigation project. Mediators were being trained to improve communication between Roma communities, non-Roma population and local authorities. In 1996, supported by the Catholic Centre against Famine and for Development (CCFD), the NGO reoriented the program to a health-focused mediation, principally aimed at improving social conditions for Roma and facilitating communication between Roma communities and medical providers.

Country: 
Romania
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Policy, Vaccination
Tags: 
communication, Vaccine, best practice, Roma

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