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Many experts on vaccination are convinced that efforts should be made to encourage increased collaboration between National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups on immunization (NITAGs) worldwide. International meetings were held in Berlin, Germany, in 2010 and 2011, to discuss improvement of the methodologies for the development of evidence-based vaccination recommendations, recognizing the need...
Background Since 2011 public concerns about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination safety and efficacy arose in France. We explored the relevance of using vaccines reimbursement data to assess the impact of those public concerns on vaccination coverage. Methods We used the Permanent Sample of Beneficiaries which was, at the time of the study, a representative sample of 1/97th health insurance beneficiaries...
Healthcare students should comply with the same vaccination recommendations as employed healthcare professionals. Vaccination coverage data for healthcare students are lackingThis cross-sectional survey was carried out on medical, nursing and midwifery students in 15 hospitals of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris with a maternity ward. All midwifery students were surveyed, and a subset of...
In July–November 2009, 26 European Union (EU) Member States (MSs), Norway and Iceland, participated in a survey seeking information on national tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vaccination recommendations. Information on TBE surveillance, methods used to ascertain endemic areas, vaccination recommendations, vaccine coverage and methods of monitoring of vaccine coverage were obtained. Sixteen countries...
We used data collected through the French national hospital-based pertussis surveillance network to investigate the risk factors for severe childhood pertussis and more specifically the impact of the vaccination status. For infants, factors associated with a decreased risk of severe disease (defined as hospitalization in intensive care unit, assisted ventilation or death) were having received the...
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