The vaccine against the pandemic or so-called swine flu caused scientific, political, and public health controversy all over the world. In Croatia, the whole case told us a lot about the state of the health care system, scientific community , and level of democracy. When the new flu season started in December 2010, I found myself in the same uncomfortable position as at the peak of flu hysteria...

OBJECTIVES Annual vaccination against influenza (flu) is recommended for all UK National Health Service (NHS) staff to help reduce the risk of contracting the virus and transmitting it to patients. However, despite flu campaigns and vaccination promotion, uptake remains low. The aim of this study was to investigate staff attitudes to flu vaccination to see how this may influence their decision ...

Several attributes may be important in flu vaccine and since Covid-19, the role of health care professionals (HCPs) have become more increasing uptake. We conducted a literature review to assess if previous preference research could inform future vaccination policies. most common used stated-preference studies determine seasonal preferences. PubMed with key terms such as “discrete choice“, “sta...

This study examined the effectiveness of a community-wide outreach campaign to promote the use of pneumococcal vaccine at public flu immunization clinics, and assessed whether this intervention was more effective than simply making pneumococcal vaccination available at such clinics. In 1997, a community-wide outreach campaign promoting pneumococcal and influenza immunizations was launched in a ...

AIMS We have previously reported a significant benefit of vaccination against flu on the incidence of a single and composite end-point of death, myocardial infarction or recurrent ischaemia in patients with myocardial necrosis and planned percutaneous coronary interventions. To determine whether the observed benefits of vaccination against flu were maintained beyond the winter season a 1-year f...

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