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This article discusses some aspects of the recovery of vaccination coverage in Spain for different groups: children, adolescents and adults, and patients at risk and in special situations.
Objectives: Cold chain control is one of the most important facts to ensure the effectiveness of vaccines links, which requires specific material and human resources for management. The principal...
Home-based record (HBR) for Spain circa 2014 Catolonia
Abstract
Immunochromatography (ICG) is highly used in clinical settings for rotavirus (RV) diagnosis. The specificity of the tests differs by brand type and is not 100%, therefore its use when the...
OBJECTIVES:
Cold chain control is one of the most important facts to ensure the effectiveness of vaccines links, which requires specific material and human resources for management. The principal...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to represent a major health problem and can lead to acute liver failure, acute hepatitis, chronic carriership, chronic hepatitis of HBV, liver cirrhosis, liver...
Like some other countries in the Region, Spain has recently experienced multiple but small measles outbreaks resulting from several importations and in which health care professionals were also...
As of 11 May 2016, 58 countries and territories report continuing mosquito-borne transmission (Fig. 1) of which: 45 countries are experiencing a first outbreak of Zika virus since 2015, with...
The surveillance of vaccine safety is an essential requirement in vaccination programmes. Computerized immunization registries such as the Vaccination Information System (SIV) of Valencian Community...
During 2003–2009, substantial progress was made toward the previous goal of measles elimination in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region (EUR) by 2010 (1,2). However, since late 2009,...
Public health activities, especially infectious disease control, depend on effective teamwork. We present the results of a pilot audit questionnaire aimed at assessing the quality of public health...
The first true epidemic of Ebola led to widespread panic. The virus appeared in so many countries in 2014—including Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the USA—that...
OBJECTIVE: Analizar la cobertura vacunal de los niños que viven en la población valenciana de Picassent, valorando la efica- cia del programa informático de nueva creación.
We describe the Murcia regional vaccination register in Spain- which was set up in 1991- detailing its main features- advantages and limitations. We also report on some recent special actions carried...
Spain: Catalonia ensures COVID-19 vaccine interventions leave no community behind