Adult vaccination in 11 Central European countries - calendars are not just for children.
As Europe's population ages, disease morbidity and treatment costs in the adult population are likely to rise substantially, making this a pertinent time to review and revise preventive strategies such as vaccination. Vaccine uptake remains a problem for adults and there is a lack of coordinated programmes for vaccination of adults. Countries in Western Europe have begun to identify the need to increase adult vaccination, but the situation in Central European countries remains poorly identified and inadequately described. This paper summarises the evidence to support the development of an adult vaccination calendar in the Central European Vaccination Awareness Group (CEVAG) member countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey). CEVAG recommends the introduction of an adult vaccination calendar, which should include vaccination against diseases that represent a large burden in adults in terms of mortality and morbidity. This calendar could be modified to meet the priorities of individual countries.
University of Defence, Trebesska 1575, 500 01 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. chlibek@pmfhk.cz
Roman
R
Chlibek
Ioana
I
Anca
Francis
F
André
Milan
M
Čižman
Inga
I
Ivaskeviciene
Atanas
A
Mangarov
Zsófia
Z
Mészner
Penka
P
Perenovska
Marko
M
Pokorn
Roman
R
Prymula
Darko
D
Richter
Nuran
N
Salman
Pavol
P
Šimurka
Eda
E
Tamm
Goran
G
Tešović
Ingrid
I
Urbancikova
Dace
D
Zavadska
Vytautas
V
Usonis
D000328:Adult; D026683:Advisory Committees; D005060:Europe; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D014611:Vaccination