Many high-income countries currently experience large outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles despite the availability of highly effective vaccines. This phenomenon lacks an explanation in countries where vaccination rates are rising on an already high level. Here, we build on the growing evidence that belief systems, rather than access to vaccines, are the primary barrier to ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the opinions, beliefs and attitudes about vaccination, of parents who decide not to vaccinate their children. To determine the opinions and attitudes of the health professionals on the behaviour towards childhood vaccination. METHOD Qualitative research based on semi-structured interviews and focal groups in Granada, Spain, including parents who chose to not vaccinate th...

Immunization is one of the most effective and cost-effective prevention measures available. As a result of universal vaccination of children, polio has been eliminated in the United States and much of the world, measles and rubella are no longer endemic diseases in the United States, and most of the other vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood are at or near record lows. A recent review of c...

Health care workers (HCWs) who have contact with patients have an increased risk of exposure to vaccinepreventable diseases and of spreading those diseases to vulnerable patients. Maintenance of immunity against vaccine-preventable diseases is an essential part of disease-prevention and infection-control programs [1]. Influenza is the most common vaccine-preventable disease, and nosocomial tran...

AIM Routine vaccination is one of the most important preventive methods which is responsible for the decreasing trend of morbidity and mortality of vaccine preventable infectious diseases, their complications and sequelae. The impact of vaccination on declining trend of these diseases is well known and confirmed by a large number of epidemiological studies. In the Czech Republic, there is high ...