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Cesar G. Victora, Aluisio J. D. Barros, Fernando P. Hartwig, Bernardo L. Horta , Ana Maria B. Menezes, Pedro C. Hallal, Antonia M. S. Teixeira, Ana Goretti K. Maranhão, Cristian T. Tonial, Mariangela F. Silveira
Introduction: There is widespread concern that disruption to health services during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to declines in immunization coverage among young children, but there is limited...
João Guilherme Alves, José Natal Figueiroa, Marcelo Luis Urquia
Objective: To examine recent vaccination trends among Brazilian children during their first year of life, and the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on these...
Marcia Thereza Couto, Carolina Luísa Alves Barbieri, Camila Carvalho de Souza Amorim Matos
Due to social distancing guidelines and the displacement of both human and material resources to fight the covid-19 pandemic, individuals seeking healthcare services face certain challenges....
Ana Paula Sayuri Sato
Since March 2020, Brazil has faced the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), which has severely modified the way in which the population lives and uses health services. As such,...
MoH Brazil
Pratcical introduction guide with FAQ for Health workers and programme managers
Despite its promise, however, the digital health landscape today is highly fragmented. The result is a myriad of digital health projects and applications that rarely reach scale and if they were to...
Ricardo A. A. Ximenes et al.
A population-based hepatitis survey was carried out to estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and its predictive factors for the state capitals from the north, south, and...
Marta Moreira et al.
Brazil introduced the 10-valent pneumococcal non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae protein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV, Synflorix™, GSK Vaccines) in the routine childhood immunization program in...
Andrew J. Mirelman, Sachiko Ozawa, Simrun Grewal
The international community has successfully promoted childhood vaccination as an essential public health intervention. This has been accomplished through efforts such as the World Health...
Peter J. Hotez
Introduction: Origins and Definitions International cooperation for purposes of infectious and tropical disease control goes back to at least the 14th century, when early concepts of quarantine...
Ligia C. F. Gryninger, Eder G. Fernandes, Patrícia C. de Soárez, Ana M. C. Sartori, Juliana Y. K. Viscondi, Hillegonda M. D. Novaes
Pertussis incidence has increased significantly in Brazil since 2011, despite high coverage of whole-cell pertussis containing vaccines in childhood. Infants <4 months are most affected. This study...
Maria Y.T. Ichihara et al.
Rotavirus is one of the leading cause of hospitalization and outpatients visits among children under five years. This study evaluated the overall and genotype-specific vaccine effectiveness of oral...
Mônica P. L. Cunha et al.
Despite good safety records, vaccines given to young children can cause adverse events. We investigated the reported adverse events following immunization (AEFI) of vaccines given to children of less...
M.S. Castro Lobo et al.
The present study develops an alternative measure of efficiency to assess the Brazilian National Immunization Program (NIP) using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), an output-oriented variable returns...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Rotavirus disease is the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality related to diarrhea in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), where an estimated 8,000 deaths related to rotavirus diarrhea...
Surkan et al.
Our study objective was to examine how maternal social support and depressive symptoms are associated with time to completion of childhood vaccinations. We used cross-sectional data from 582...
Philip S. Watsona, David P. J. Turnerb
Although rare, invasive meningococcal disease remains an important cause of mortality and morbidity in children and young adults. Vaccines have been successfully introduced to help protect against...
Pereira SM et al.
Neonatal BCG vaccination is part of routine vaccination schedules in many developing countries; vaccination at school age has not been assessed in trials in low-income and middle-income countries....
Adriana Avila Moura, Maria Júlia Gonçalves de Mello, Jailson B. Correia
Vaccinating populations against rubella aims to mitigate viral circulation and to ensure that women of childbearing age are immunized to reduce the incidence of congenital rubella syndrome. This...
Sabrina Sgambatti et al.
In Brazil, 10-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV10) was introduced in 2010 in the childhood routine immunization program. The researchers used primary data to evaluate the effect of PCV10 on...
Mauricio L. Barreto et al.
BCG revaccination is still used in some tuberculosis endemic countries. Until now, the little evidence available suggested that BCG revaccination confers very limited additional protection, although...
Masukawa Mde L et al.
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of rotavirus vaccine on hospitalization rates for acute diarrhea in children younger than 5 years old after the introduction of the vaccine in 2006....
The study concludes that the measles outbreak in Ceará was probably imported directly from Europe or from there through the bordering state of Pernambuco (459). Cases were concentrated in Fortaleza...
Teixeira AM et al.
The study concludes that the use of rapid coverage monitoring clearly contributed to the success of the national vaccination campaign to eliminate rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in Brazil....
Rishi Desai et al.
With the recent postlicensure identification of an increased risk of intussusception with rotavirus vaccine, the 14 Latin American countries currently using rotavirus vaccine must now weigh the...
Ana Paula Sayuri Sato
The scope and coverage of the Brazilian Immunization Program can be compared with those in developed countries because it provides a large number of vaccines and has a considerable coverage. The...
Mauricio L Barreto et al.
Despite pronounced reductions in the number of deaths due to infectious diseases over the past six decades, infectious diseases are still a public health problem in Brazil. In this report, we discuss...
Rifat Atun et al.
Starting in the late 1980s, many Latin American countries began social sector reforms to alleviate poverty, reduce socioeconomic inequalities, improve health outcomes, and provide financial risk...
Renata Chagas Bastos et al.
Several outbreaks caused by Neisseria meningitidis group C have been occurred in different regions of Brazil. A conjugate vaccine for Neisseria meningitidis was produced by chemical linkage between...
José S. Ferreira Neto, Maria C.N.C. Mendes, Noemia T. Paranhos, Hildebrando Montenegro Netto, Ricardo A. Dias, Marcos Amaku, José H. H. Grisi-Filho, Fernando Ferreira
OBJETIVO: Desenvolver método para planejamento e avaliação de campanhas de vacinação contra a raiva animal. MÉTODOS: O desenvolvimento da metodologia baseou-se em sistemas de informação...
Noemia T. Paranhos, Hildebrando Montenegro Netto, Maria C.N.C. Mendes, José H. H. Grisi-Filho, José S. Ferreira Neto, Ricardo A. Dias, Marcos Amaku, Fernando Ferreira
OBJECTIVE: To develop a method to assist in the design and assessment of animal rabies control campaigns. METHODS: A methodology was developed based on geographic information systems to estimate the...
Paolo Meneghin, Emília Cristina Peres, Bruna Maria Ferreira da Silva, Ana Stella Azevedo de Silveira
A matrícula de alunos, nas Escolas Municipais de Educação Infantil de São Paulo, está vinculada à apresentação da caderneta de vaci- nação, para incentivar os pais a manterem atualizado o...
Eliseu Alves Waldman, Karin Regina Luhm
São apresentadas diferentes experiências e metodologias empregadas por registros informatizados de imunização (RII), no enfoque da saúde infantil. O levantamento bibliográfico abrangeu...
Brendan Flannery, Jacqueline E. Tate, José Cássio de Moraes, Samia Samad, M. Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Lucia Helena de Oliveira, Jeanette J. Rainey
In March, 2006, oral rotavirus vaccine was added to Brazil\'s infant immunization schedule with recommended upper age limits for initiating (by age 14 weeks) and completing (by age 24 weeks) the...
Adriana Guzmán-Holst, Thatiana de Jesus Pereira Pinto, Ingrid Leal, María M. Castrejon
Globally, an estimated 23 million children missed vaccination in 2020 due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This article analyzes vaccination coverage trends and catch-up...