Differences in national influenza vaccination policies across the European Union, Norway and Iceland 2008-2009

Authors

Jolita Mereckiene, Susanne Cotter, Fortunato D'Ancona, Cristina Giambi, Angus Nicoll, Daniel Levy-Bruhl, Pierluigi Lopalco, Todd Weber, Kari Johansen, Luca Dematte, Stefania Salmaso, Paweł Stefanoff, Donato Greco, Frederique Dorleans, Aleksandra Polkowska, Darina O'Flanagan; VENICE project gatekeepers group.

Reference

Euro Surveill 2010; 15: pii: 19700.

I participated in a consortium VENICE-2, collecting information on and comparing vaccination programmes in EU countries. In this paper we summarized an overview of vaccination programmes against seasonal influenza. Unfortunately, Poland recorded one of the lowest results in terms of vaccine uptake, which should lead to some reflection of the Polish policymakers...