In a previous post, I discussed three possible methods of increasing vaccination and decreasing vaccine refusals in the United States.
Specifically, in scenario B, both varicella and HZ incidence decrease with increasing vaccination coverage in vaccinated cohorts, and the incidence of varicella and HZ in unvaccinated cohorts is marginally affected.
indicates that even with current levels of vaccine effectiveness, increasing vaccination coverage would significantly reduce disease burden and health cost.
Also it has been argued that, as measles becomes less common with increasing vaccination, there is an increased tendency to misdiagnose simply as a result of lack of experience in identifying measles cases; as this might lead to both an increase in under-reporting and an increase in the number of cases of other infections misreported as measles, its overall impact is not clear [ 7, 19].
One key element for increasing vaccination coverage is the development of better influenza vaccines, e.g. vaccines that are more effective, provide longer lasting immunity and do not require annual administration.
To evaluate the effectiveness of community pharmacy based interventions in increasing vaccination rates for the herpes zoster vaccine.
Despite these limitations, we agree with the conclusions of the study that even with suboptimal vaccine effectiveness, the benefits of increasing vaccination coverage would be enormous in terms of averted morbidity, mortality and cost.
Medical professionals attribute the outbreak to increasing vaccination skepticism and have urged parents to vaccinate their children.
Standing orders, an effective method for increasing vaccination, are not widely used for HPV vaccine.
In the United States, studies estimating the national number of cases and hospitalizations averted by influenza vaccination support the use of influenza vaccination as a central tool for preventing influenza, and they highlight the need for increasing vaccination coverage and the need for more effective vaccines (15, 16 ).
The authors argue that the reduced compliance with boosters in preschool children and adolescents could be due to the reactogenicity of full antigen content vaccines and that the use of a combined dTap vaccine could contribute to the acceptability of vaccination and to an increasing vaccination coverage, while ensuring adequate antibody responses [ 24].
