Government and Public Health

Managing Infectious Diseases in Child Care and Schools ‒ A Quick Reference Guide

Aronson S, Shope TR, editors. 3rd ed. American Academy of Pediatrics;2013

Presented in an easy-to-use format, this ‘must-have’ guide provides:

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Media, Prevention

Seasonal Influenza in Adults and Children ‒ Diagnosis, Treatment, Chemoprophylaxis, and Institutional Outbreak Management: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Harper SA, Bradley JS, Englund JA, File TM, Gravenstein S, Hayden FG, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Apr 15;48(8):1003-32.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
ISDA, CDC, influenza

Dramatic change in public attitudes towards vaccination during the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic in France

Peretti-Watel P, Verger P, Raude J, Constant A, Gautier A, Jestin C. Euro Surveill. 2013 Oct 31;18(44).

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, influenza, pandemic, H1N1

Risk Communication practice and perspective in contrast to WHO outbreak communication guidelines

​Abraham T. Eur J Public Health. 2013 Oct 1;23(1).

Post SARS, the WHO and other organizations charged with public health in different parts of the world began to focus on the task of refining emergency risk communication strategies and principles. Based on the experience of communication during SARS, as well as earlier infectious diseases such as Nipah and Ebola, the WHO identified five critical best practices for effective outbreak communication.

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Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Policy, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
outbreak, communication

Better organization can be more useful than compulsory vaccination

May 13, 2017

Mandatory vaccinations for both healthcare workers and the public can obtain a rapid improvement in immunization rates, but in the end have high cost, especially in term of litigation. The same results can be achieved putting resources into better organization and communication programs. This is the opinion of Darina O’Flanagan, previous Director of Health Protection Surveillance Centre Ireland and a member of the Advisory Forum of the European Centre for Disease Control since its inception in 2005 up to 2016. She was also one of the founder partners of the European Vaccine Network VENICE and is participating to Pandem project, on behalf of the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, Vaccine, science-in-society, public health communication

Compulsory vaccination in healthcare workers

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 - 16:18

In front of low rates of immunization, many claim for compulsory vaccination, especially as far as healthcare workers are concerned. Their institutional role and ethical purpose is to take care of a subgroup of citizens particularly weak, because of their health conditions. This is always true, but even more when immunocompromised or frail patients, vulnerable to infections, are involved. All healthcare workers have therefore a moral duty not to hurt people they have to take care of, following the ancient principle “Primum non nocere”.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Policy, Prevention, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Health care workers, public health

The citizen consultation at the European Parliament

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 (All day)

Members of the ASSET projects will present the results of the citizen consultation that took place in eight countries on September 2016 at the European Parliament. Such an event is part of the science-in-society approach performed by the project within the framework of Research and Innovation related to pandemic preparedness. ASSET citizen consultation is an innovative method of engaging citizens on complex issues, providing them with information before asking questions.

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Type: 
General event
Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Gender, Local Activities, Policy, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
science-in-society, risk communication, Preparedness, citizen consultation, Vaccines

Who is tweeting about vaccines?

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 08:43

During the period between October and December 2016, we used our algorithm to find out the most relevant Twitter influencers about vaccines. We performed a multilevel study to categorize the accounts and to identify the most relevant hashtags.

We analysed 869 accounts and categorized 373 of them:

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Social media, science-in-society, Vaccine, Twitter

Despite awareness of recommendations, why do health care workers not immunize pregnant women?

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 16:16

Gesser-Edelsburg A, Shir-Raz Y, Hayek S, Aassaraf S, Lowenstein L. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Apr 1;45(4):436-439.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Health care workers, Vaccination, pregnant women, risk communication

The behind-the-scenes activity of parental decision-making discourse regarding childhood vaccination

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 16:05

Gesser-Edelsburg A, Walter N, Shir-Raz Y, Sassoni Bar-Lev O, Rosenblat S. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Mar 1;45(3):267-271. 

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Antivaccination parents, hesitant parents, provaccination, risk communication

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