[What did the campaigns against childhood vaccination accomplish in developed countries?].
An overview is given on the literature on the campaigns against vaccination of children. Such campaigns were organized in the developed countries of the Western Europe and they have occurred recently also in the Czech Republic. From these actions and namely from the consequence of the limited vaccination it is possible to get an important lesson and to use them as arguments for our own vaccination program. There is no doubt that vaccination can bring some side effects, however, restrictions of vaccination have shown that even in the developed countries the disease of an unvaccinated child brings much higher risk of complications than the vaccination itself. Vaccination belongs to the basic prevention in the primary care and our paediatricians have to be fully informed about the program in order to outreason the devious arguments of parents. In the risk cases (children with serious preceding reaction, reaction in the history, etc.) it is possible to consult www pages www.ockovanideti.cz or a specialized clinic for vaccination in the Motol hospital. In selected cases it is possible to use for the risk patients also those vaccines, which are not listed in the present routine vaccination programs. Professional societies have to prepare projects of the nomenclature of side effects (namely their grading) in the nearest term and in co-operation with legislative to introduce principles for measures and action in cases of serious side effects of vaccination in children. Though the www pages on vaccination for parents already exist www.ockovanideti.cz/rodice it would be useful to publish a booklet for laymen. Paediatricians can contribute to their actualisation and actively participate on reediting of such thematic booklets.
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