Journal article

The Norwegian immunisation register--SYSVAK

The Norwegian immunisation register- SYSVAK- is a national electronic immunisation register. It became nationwide in 1995. The major aim was to register all vaccinations in the Childhood Immunisation Programme to ensure that all children are offered adequate vaccination according to schedule in the programme- and to secure high vaccination coverage. Notification to SYSVAK is mandatory- based on personal identification numbers. This allows follow up of individual vaccination schedules and linkage of SYSVAK data to other national health registers for information on outcome diagnoses- such as the surveillance system for communicable diseases. Information from SYSVAK is used to determine vaccine coverage in a timely manner. Coverage can be broken down to regional/local levels and used for active surveillance of vaccination coverage and decisions about interventions. During the 2009 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 pandemic- an adaptation of SYSVAK enabled daily surveillance of vaccination coverage on national and regional levels. Currently- data from SYSVAK are used- among others- in studies on adverse events related to pandemic vaccination. Future challenges include maximising usage of collected data in surveillance and research- and continued improvement of data quality. Immunisation registers are rich sources for high quality surveillance of vaccination coverage- effectiveness- vaccine failure and adverse events- and gold mines for research.

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  • English

Journal

Euro surveillance : bulletin Europu00e9en sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin

Volume

16

Type

Journal article

Categories

  • Data

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