Government and Public Health

Changing the citizen behaviour to improve public health and increase vaccination awareness – Carta Italiana

A very recent and innovative example of good practice concerning awareness campaigns is the “Italian Chart for the Promotion of Vaccinations”, a recent call for action whose website is: http://www.teamvaxitalia.it/. Namely, the Chart is the result of the efforts of the “TeamVaxItaly” movement that had been founded in a civil society meeting in Fano (Italy) in October 2015.

Country: 
Italy
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Human Rights, Local Activities, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, Vaccine safety, best practice

A collection of best practices in public health

Thursday, November 10, 2016 - 08:58

The exploration and adoption of best practices in health by public institutions and non-governmental organizations as well has been growing in recent years. ASSET experts recognize the importance of these activities. Thus, they will gather examples from all around Europe and present them on a dedicated page.

But what exactly are “best practices”, and what are the differences between best and good practices?

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Policy, Stakeholders
Tags: 
best practice, science-in-society

Too long time for a new vaccine in case of an emerging infectious threat

November 9, 2016

In 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic, vaccines were ready and could be supplied only when the peak of the pandemic was already decreasing in most European countries, discouraging people from getting vaccinated. Since the disease was not as severe as it was feared in the beginning, the consequences of this delay were not that serious, even if some lives could have been saved if the vaccines were available in advance. Ebola vaccine also arrived to West Africa when the epidemic was over, while a zika vaccine is still very far away. According to Thomas Breuer, however, GSK Chief Medical Officer, in case of another flu pandemic, a better cooperation among stakeholders and new technologies could accelerate the production and supply of new vaccines.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, H1N1, pandemic, flu, influenza, swine flu, Ebola, zika, Vaccine

A first glance at ASSET citizen consultation

Saturday, October 29, 2016 - 10:23

Citizens across Europe participated to the daylong citizen consultations organized by the ASSET project at the end of September.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Local Activities, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
citizen consultation, gender issues, Vaccine, science-in-society, communication

Should we vaccinate healthy children against flu?

October 24, 2016

While USA recommend universal flu vaccination for 6 months age, some European countries have different strategies, targeting only children with chronic diseases. Susanna Esposito, professor of Paediatrics at the University of Milan, Italy and president of WAIDID (World Association for Infectious Diseases) advocates for a wider coverage against influenza in healthy children as well.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Tags: 
Video, Vaccine, flu, influenza

A spontaneous, collaborative effort for early diagnosis of infectious outbreaks

October 11, 2016

Preparedness is also made of vigilance towards new infectious threats. Professor Bert Niesters from the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands, tells ASSET an example of spontaneous cooperation among 42 laboratories from more than 20 countries in Europe in facing an emerging, dangerous infection: enterovirus D68 respiratory epidemic in 2014-2015. That experience is now going on, taking the name of EUROTYPE.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
Video, Preparedness, enterovirus

Ethical issues in national pandemic influenza plans

Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 09:38
Ethic dataviz

Influenza pandemics are unpredictable but recurring events that can have severe consequences on human health and socio-economic life to global level. For this reason, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended all countries to prepare a pandemic influenza plan following its own guidelines.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Human Rights, Policy, Prevention
Tags: 
Dataviz, ethics, Preparedness

Epidemic preparedness and response: Europe listens to the citizens’ voice

Friday, September 23, 2016 - 12:21

One day, eight countries, fifty participants for each of them, open discussions and a series of questions. These are the ingredients of the citizen consultations organized by ASSET on September 24th, to voice people’s opinion on epidemic preparedness and response.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Local Activities, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
citizen consultation, Vaccine, Vaccine safety, science-in-society

TeamVax Italy and the Italian Charter for the promotion of immunization

Friday, September 16, 2016 - 10:32

Parents, healthcare workers, bloggers and science communicators have launched a positive experience in Italy, with the aim of sharing and promoting scientific information towards an important public health goal: to face the drop in vaccine coverage.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Human Rights, Local Activities, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, engagement, science-in-society

Compulsory vaccination and rates of coverage immunisation in Europe

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 16:12

High rates of vaccination coverage in childhood are main indicators for public health. However, reaching and maintaining such a target is not always an easy task for public health institutions, and the spread of vaccine refusal and hesitancy is making this even harder.

Enforcing mandatory vaccinations is one of the strategies that some countries adopted and others are considering in order to face this issue. Depending on local legislations, legal consequences for those who do not accept the uptake can be very different, ranging from pecuniary penalties to hurdles to attend public schools. In some cases, parents may even incur penal consequences, as it recently happened in France, were two parents refusing to vaccinate their children risked a jail sentence. Nevertheless, the efficacy of such an approach has been questioned.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy, Prevention, Vaccination
Tags: 
Dataviz, Vaccine

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