Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Requiring Hospitalization

Vaccine-preventable diseases.

The panel addressed four main areas of vaccine development and use: diseases of public health importance for which no vaccine is available; diseases for which an existing licensed vaccine is not optimal and alternative vaccines are under development; diseases for which a vaccine exists but is not being used optimally; and diseases requiring vaccines of specialized or limited use, such as those ...

Immunisation and Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Estimating Meningitis Hospitalization Rates for Sentinel Hospitals Conducting Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Surveillance

The World Health Organization (WHO)-coordinated Global Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD) sentinel hospital surveillance network provides data for decision making regarding use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine, both recommended for inclusion in routine childhood immunization programs worldwide. WHO recommends that countries ...

Seven challenges in modeling vaccine preventable diseases.

Vaccination has been one of the most successful public health measures since the introduction of basic sanitation. Substantial mortality and morbidity reductions have been achieved via vaccination against many infections, and the list of diseases that are potentially controllable by vaccines is growing steadily. We introduce key challenges for modeling in shaping our understanding and guiding p...

The vicar of vicarious vaccine-preventable diseases.

On this spring day, you have seen your fourth patient younger than age 24 months with a fever of 103.5°F for the past day or so, including your own granddaughter (Figure 1), who was being examined by your partner. Each child was without other symptoms except for being cranky, anorexic, non-toxic appearing, and totally unappreciative of any physician examination. In the “old days,” many of these...