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Changes in vaccination administration in Japan
Vaccine. 2023 Mar 16:S0264-410X(23)00282-7. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.03.020. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper reviews the administration related to vaccination in Japan after the enactment of the Immunization Act in 1948, under which vaccination was implemented mandatory for the public. To enhance the effectiveness of vaccination activities, the government implemented group vaccination, which is convenient for vaccinating recipients all at once. In 1976, Japan established the relief system for health damage after vaccination. While some projects, such as the mass administration of live oral polio vaccine in 1961...
Source: Vaccine - March 18, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Takashi Nakano Source Type: research
News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
The 1960 poliomyelitis vaccination campaign in the GDR using the example of the city of Halle (Saale): historical experiences and problems
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2022 May 16. doi: 10.1007/s00103-022-03538-7. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn the 1950s, the epidemic occurrence of infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis) posed major challenges to health systems worldwide. Since there was no causal therapy for the viral disease, exposure prophylaxis was of particular importance. Ultimately, it was only through the development of vaccines that infantile paralysis could be permanently reduced. In 1960, the Sabin-Tschumakow oral vaccine was administered in the former German Democratic Republic GDR for the first time in Germany. Wit...
Source: Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz - May 16, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Anne Thordis Wanke Florian Bruns Source Type: research
Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication - Afghanistan, January 2020-November 2021
This report describes the activities and progress toward polio eradication in Afghanistan during January 2020-November 2021 and updates previous reports (2-4). Despite restrictions imposed by antigovernment elements since 2018, disruption of polio eradication efforts by the COVID-19 pandemic, and civil and political instability, eradication activities have resumed. During January-November 2021, four WPV1 cases and 43 cVDPV2 cases were detected, representing decreases of 93% from 56 and 85% from 281, respectively, during the same period in 2020. After the assumption of nationwide control by the current de facto government o...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - January 20, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Katrin S Sadigh Irfan Elahi Akbar Mufti Zubair Wadood Hemant Shukla Jaume Jorba Sumangala Chaudhury Maureen Martinez Source Type: research
Maternal Correlates of Poliomyelitis Vaccination Uptake: Evidence from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria
This study focuses on the impact of women's empowerment and women's working status on the uptake of polio vaccination of children in polio-endemic countries, including Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Nigeria, the latter of which has recently been declared polio-free. The polio vaccination status can be divided into no vaccination (NV), incomplete vaccination (IV), and complete vaccination. We used data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) rounds for this manuscript. Multinomial logistic regression-based estimates suggest that mothers' working status, empowerment, age, education, father's education, and h...
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - August 30, 2021 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Muhammad Muzammil Sameen Zafar Shazia Aziz Muhammad Usman Bhutta Rafi Amir-Ud-Din Source Type: research
Vaccine preventable diseases surveillance in Nepal: How much does it cost?
Vaccine. 2021 Aug 18:S0264-410X(21)00915-4. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.07.038. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAssessing the cost of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) surveillance is becoming more important in the context of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) funding transition, since GPEI support to polio surveillance helped the incremental building of VPD surveillance systems in many countries, including low income countries such as Nepal. However, there is limited knowledge on the cost of conducting VPD surveillance, especially the national cost for surveillance of multiple vaccine-preventable diseases. The ...
Source: Vaccine - August 22, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Xiao Xian Huang Anindya Sekhar Bose Binod Prasad Gupta Pasang Rai Sudhir Joshi Jhalak Sharma Gautam Bhim Singh Tinkari Jos Vandelaer Adam L Cohen Minal K Patel Source Type: research
Top 12 Global Health Moments of 2018
By The Editorial Team,
IntraHealth InternationalDecember 14, 2018A month-by-month guide to the moments that captivated us most throughout the year.As 2018 comes to an end, we ’re looking back on the moments this year that filled us with joy, wonder, sorrow, and fear.These are some of the ones we won ’t forget:January: A mother and daughter assassinated in Pakistan for delivering polio vaccinesThis was the year we were supposed to eradicate polio, according to thePolio Eradication and Endgame Strategic Plan 2013 –2018. But there were27 new cases of wild poliovirus this year and it remains endemic in Afghanistan, Pak...
Source: IntraHealth International - December 14, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: mnathe Tags: Capacity Building for Fistula Treatment and Prevention in Mali (Fistula Mali) Family Planning & Reproductive Health Infectious Diseases Ebola obstetric fistula technology Policy Advocacy Health Workforce Systems Primary Health Care Source Type: news
Philanthropists Join Forces to Fund Africa ’s Cash-Strapped Health Sector
Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre in Nigeria. Credit: Tristate Heart and Vascular CentreBy Pavithra Rao, Africa Renewal*NEW YORK, Sep 28 2017 (IPS)In the 2017 World Happiness Report by Gallup, African countries score poorly. Of the 150 countries on the list, the Central African Republic, Tanzania and Burundi rank as the unhappiest countries in the world. Some of the factors driving unhappiness are the poor state of the continent’s health care systems, the persistence of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and the growth of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.Few African countries make sig...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pavithra Rao Tags: Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Research Using Fetal Tissue
Hello HuffPo! Some of you may know me from junkscience.com or healthnewsdigest.com. My main focus here will be on science, or what passes for science these days. Many people of good will are not aware that our government spends more than $400 billion per year on R & D. Regrettably, a substantial amount of that ends of being little more than a form of academic welfare, for research that has almost no chance of ever leading to anything practical, and in many cases does not even add to so-called "basic knowledge." By way of example (and I will have many more), let's take a look at a current hot topic: Research using fetal tis...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 1, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Most Exciting Health Stories Of 2014
While 2014 will forever be known as the year of the world's biggest Ebola outbreak -- and the first cases of Ebola contracted in the United States -- the virus is just one of several impactful changes in our medical and personal health landscape. From cancer research breakthroughs to innovative food policies to strides in the search for an HIV vaccine, we're quite a bit further in our understanding of medicine than we were last year.
Thanks to research in 2014...
Your Fitness Tracker Data Could Lead To The Next Big Medical Discovery
Your FitBit, Jawbone and other personal tracking devices and apps are logging every s...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 16, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Some Authoritative Skepticism about the "Triumph" of Sovaldi to Add to Outrage about "Blood Money"
This report just appeared online in JAMA Internal Medicine [Ollendorf DA, Tice JA et al. The comparative clinical effectiveness and value of simeprevir and sofosbuvir in chronic hepatitis C viral infection. JAMA Inte Med 2014. Link here.] The review found again that there were major limitations in the available data, and so much of it was based on a network meta-analysis and simulation studies,The review was limited to patients with genotype 1, 2, and 3 infections, which account for most HCV cases in the United States. At the time of the review, no head-to-head trials of the direct-acting antiviral d...
Source: Health Care Renewal - May 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: evidence-based medicine Gilead health care prices manipulating clinical research pharmaceuticals Sovaldi Source Type: blogs
