SEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINATION COVERAGE: EHIS SURVEY RESULTS VERSUS OECD STATISTICS
Keywords:
seasonal influenza, coverage, EHIS survey, OECD
Abstract
Seasonal influenza vaccination is one of the most important tools of prevention. Countries currently use many different methodologies to measure national influenza vaccine coverage in populations at higher risk. The study uses two main data sources: The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) (collected by Eurostat) and OECD statistics, and compares both results. Findings showed that the EHIS survey results observed in this study are mainly lower than OECD data. This can mean that international sources provide overestimated data of coverage compared to outcomes from population surveys.
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Spruijt, I.T., de Lange, M.M., Dijkstra, F., Donker, G.A. and van der Hoek, W., (2016). Long-Term Correlation between Influenza Vaccination Coverage and Incidence of Influenza-Like Illness in 14 European Countries. PloS one, 11(9), p.e 0163508. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163508. [in English].
WHO (2012a). Vaccines against influenza WHO position paper – November 2012. Wkly Epidemiol Rec., 87, 461–76. [in Arabic Chinese Russian Spanish].
WHO (2012b). Background paper on influenza vaccines and immunization SAGE Working Group. Geneva: World Health Organization. [in English].
WHO (2014). Influenza (Seasonal): Fact Sheet N 211. World Health Organization. [Electronic resource]. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ influenza-(seasonal). [in English].
WHO (2015). The Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines Report of the tenth meeting of the Advisory Group of the WHO Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines. Saõ Paulo, Brazil: World Health Organization. [in English].
WHO (2016). Methods for assessing influenza vaccination coverage in target groups. Denmark: The Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization. [in English].
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Published
2018-10-29
How to Cite
Blazinska, L., Duric, P., Rusnák, M., & O’May, F. (2018). SEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINATION COVERAGE: EHIS SURVEY RESULTS VERSUS OECD STATISTICS. Scientific Journal of Polonia University, 30(5), 11-24. https://doi.org/10.23856/3001
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