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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
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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”.

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

Global concerns regarding novel influenza A (H7N9) virus infections

Uyeki TM, Cox NJ. N Engl J Med. May 16, 2013. 

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
influenza, H7N9, pandemic risk assessment
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Major challenges in providing an effective and timely pandemic vaccine for influenza A(H7N9)

Osterholm MT, Ballering KS, Kelley NS. JAMA. On line May 9, 2013.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention
Tags: 
influenza, H7N9, pandemic, Vaccine
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Infezione da virus influenzale HTN9 nell'uomo in Cina

Italian Ministry of Health. 2013 May 3. Infezione da virus influenzale HTN9 nell'uomo in Cina.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Prevention
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Third edition of the ASSET best practice award for general practitioners

Monday, February 27, 2017 - 18:33

ASSET AIM

ASSET – Action Plan on SiS Related Issues in Epidemics and Total Pandemics is a 4-year FP7 EU co funded project which aims to:   

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Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Human Rights, Local Activities, Prevention, Stakeholders
Tags: 
award, science-in-society

The winners for the ASSET best practice award

Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 16:30

The second edition of the ASSET best practice award for general practitioners has come to an end, with the assignment of the four grants to health professionals or groups of health professionals working in the primary health sector.

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Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
gender issues, Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, Vaccine safety, Roma, Pregnancy

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.

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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

Sex, clinical trials and medicines regulation part II

Friday, December 30, 2016 - 10:24

Drug Approval Regulation in Canada and USA

Since the thalidomide tragedy in the late1950s, there has been a reluctance to include women of childbearing age in clinical trials. However, this fear cannot be used as an excuse to not include females in clinical trials, and, with proper care and regulation, increased female participation has been reached. The United States adopted regulation early on to increase the participation of women, while a new regulation in Europe is going to improve this as well. Here follows an overview of the issue in Canada and in the USA. The third part of this series will deal with new regulation in Europe.

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Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Gender, Prevention, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
gender issues, clinical trials

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.

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

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