Vaccine programmes and policies.

Sustainable vaccine policies in the EU

The purpose of this first section is to provide the basis for a discussion on where and how strengthened EUwide collaboration would create benefits for the modernization and implementation of vaccination programmes. Against the background of limited national resources and declining public trust in vaccination, the paper identifies synergies of potential EU actions that could strengthen transpar...

Issues with Language Policy and Planning in Iranian Higher Education

In this study, we attempt to bring to light various organisational and implementational clashes relevant to the conceptualisation of language policies at national level, and the planning of local practices with regard to degree programmes, language journals and conferences in Iranian higher education. We also prove that in its current status, the ELT syllabus in Iran, both at national and local...

Review: interventions to increase influenza vaccination among healthcare workers in hospitals

Annual influenza vaccination rates among hospital healthcare workers (HCW) are almost universally low despite recommendations from WHO and public health authorities in many countries. To assist in the development of successful vaccination programmes, we reviewed studies where interventions aimed to increase the uptake of influenza vaccination among hospital HCW. We searched PUBMED from 1990 up ...

Women’s health policies and programmes and gender-mainstreaming in health policies, programmes and within the health sector

Assessing Optimal Target Populations for Influenza Vaccination Programmes: An Evidence Synthesis and Modelling Study

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccine policies that maximise health benefit through efficient use of limited resources are needed. Generally, influenza vaccination programmes have targeted individuals 65 y and over and those at risk, according to World Health Organization recommendations. We developed methods to synthesise the multiplicity of surveillance datasets in order to evaluate how changing targe...