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What are some factors that public health agencies must consider to protect the community through immunization for infectious diseases.
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..and here's the National Minimum Standards document for training for immunisation
18:53 Wed 09th Mar 2011
Just off the top of my head . . .
1. 'Raw' cost.
2. 'Cost effectiveness' in terms of the balance between the cost of immunisation and the subsequent savings for the health service.
3. Overall effectiveness and, where it is not 100%, the possible social implications of an immunisation programme. (e.g. if immunisation is given against a sexually transmitted disease, but it is not 100% effective, it might indirectly encourage sexual promiscuity [or the late reporting of disease symptoms] by people who believe that they've been provided with immunity to the disease).
4. Whether the 'take up' of the immunisation programme will be high enough to avoid epidemics. (For example, it only needs the take-up rate for childhood mumps vaccines to fall below about 95% in order to make a mumps epidemic quite likely. If take-up rates aren't high enough, the reasons for introducing immunisation programmes have to be called into question).
5. How should people be selected for immunisation? By age group? by gender? By sexual preferences?
Chris
1. 'Raw' cost.
2. 'Cost effectiveness' in terms of the balance between the cost of immunisation and the subsequent savings for the health service.
3. Overall effectiveness and, where it is not 100%, the possible social implications of an immunisation programme. (e.g. if immunisation is given against a sexually transmitted disease, but it is not 100% effective, it might indirectly encourage sexual promiscuity [or the late reporting of disease symptoms] by people who believe that they've been provided with immunity to the disease).
4. Whether the 'take up' of the immunisation programme will be high enough to avoid epidemics. (For example, it only needs the take-up rate for childhood mumps vaccines to fall below about 95% in order to make a mumps epidemic quite likely. If take-up rates aren't high enough, the reasons for introducing immunisation programmes have to be called into question).
5. How should people be selected for immunisation? By age group? by gender? By sexual preferences?
Chris
If you look here, tigger, you should find everything you need. This is the NHS organisation which sets out to protect the public health of the population. http://www.hpa.org.uk...ProtectionAgencyDoes/
Lists many factors and what they help to do about them.
Lists many factors and what they help to do about them.
..and here's the National Minimum Standards document for training for immunisations http://www.hpa.org.uk...ImmunisationTraining/
The factors I would list are
cost
takeup of the public - you can make the vaccines available but you can't make people attend to receive them
prevalence of the condition
Truth - look at the hoohaa about the MMR combined vaccine, which stopped many parents giving it to their kids, who are now more at risk of these disease
Incoming disease - people coming into the country or returning from foreign lands where communicable diseases are very prevalent
..and that's just for starters
The factors I would list are
cost
takeup of the public - you can make the vaccines available but you can't make people attend to receive them
prevalence of the condition
Truth - look at the hoohaa about the MMR combined vaccine, which stopped many parents giving it to their kids, who are now more at risk of these disease
Incoming disease - people coming into the country or returning from foreign lands where communicable diseases are very prevalent
..and that's just for starters
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