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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

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

Paper series 1 - Science for and with Society aiming to the public health emergencies response and preparedness

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 14:56

Athena Linos, European Institute of Women’s Health, Alberto d’Onofrio

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Vaccination
Tags: 
science-in-society, gender issues, Vaccine, flu, influenza, behaviour, mathematics
PDF icon paper_series_1_-_science_for_and_with_society_aiming_to_the_public_health_emergencies_response_and_preparedness.pdf

Engaging citizens in public health decisions: the ASSET citizen consultation

Monday, August 22, 2016 - 18:43

Citizens from the eight Countries partner of the ASSET project will gather on September 24th to discuss and express themselves through a public consultation on some of the key topics of the project:

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Stakeholders
Tags: 
citizen consultation, Preparedness, science-in-society

From Science-in-society (SiS) to Science with and for Society (SwafS) in epidemics & pandemics

Monday, August 22, 2016 - 17:53

There are times when science seems to be losing its connection to society and its needs, and its objectives are not fully understood, even if they are well intended. The lack of a common language on one hand and the rapid progress in many areas of research on another have increased the public's concern. It is also contributing to the ambivalence surrounding the role that science and technology are playing in everyday life. However, science and scientists cannot and should not work in isolation, and advances in science and technology are not an objective in their own right.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders
Tags: 
science-in-society

Determinants of adherence to seasonal influenza vaccination among healthcare workers from an Italian region: results from a cross-sectional study

Monday, August 22, 2016 - 15:55

Durando P, Alicino C, Dini G, Barberis I, Bagnasco AM, Iudici R, et al. BMJ Open. 2016 May 17.

Objectives: Notwithstanding decades of efforts to increase the uptake of seasonal influenza (flu) vaccination among European healthcare workers (HCWs), the immunisation rates are still unsatisfactory. In order to understand the reasons for the low adherence to flu vaccination, a study was carried out among HCWs of two healthcare organisations in Liguria, a region in northwest Italy.

Source: 
Scientific literature
Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Microbiology
Tags: 
Vaccine, influenza
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Airborne Transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets

Monday, August 22, 2016 - 15:43

Herfst S, Schrauwen EJ, Linster M, Chutinimitkul S, de Wit E, Munster VJ, et al. Science. 2012 Jun 22.

Source: 
Scientific literature
Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Microbiology
Tags: 
influenza

Habits can spread epidemics: the case of living poultry markets in China

July 29, 2016

Living poultry markets, common in China and in other eastern countries, are a typical example of how societal factors can be relevant in the spread of infectious diseases. A science-with-and-for-society approach should therefore find a way to solve this problem without fostering people hostility towards authorities. Even if central slaughters would be the simplest solutions, people would not accept them. Ivan Hung, Clinical Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant in the Department of Medicine at the Queen Mary Hospital of the University of Hong Kong, explains how this issue can be dealt with, in the fight against H7N9 bird flu virus and other new strains.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
Video, H7N9, epidemic, flu

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