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Vital Surveillances: Effectiveness of Catch-Up Vaccinations after COVID-19 Containment — China, 2020
In the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in China, the highest level of public health emergency response (Level 1 Response) was launched in all province-level...
Plenary 2 presentation
The goal of this study was to assess the change in children’s and adolescents’ prevention and vaccination behaviors amid China’s COVID-19 epidemic.
This ecological study compared the frequency of pediatric outpatient visits at Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital for infectious diseases acquired through droplet transmission, contact transmission, or both...
OBJECTIVE: To prevent perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV), WHO recommends that the first dose of hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine be given within 24 hours after birth. This presents a...
Home-based record (HBR) for China-Shijiazhuang circa 2013
The World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region (WPR) has maintained its polio-free status since 2000. The emergence of vaccine-derived polioviruses (VDPVs), however, remains a risk, as...
Introduction: Two types of Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccines, inactivated JE vaccine (JE-I) and live-attenuated JE vaccine (JE-L), are available and used in China. In particular, one JE-L, produced...
OBJECTIVES: To verify the effectiveness of prenatal vaccination education intervention on improving mother\'s vaccination knowledge and child\'s vaccination status in Zhejiang province, eastern...
BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of an EPI smartphone application (EPI app) on improving vaccination coverage in rural Sichuan Province, China. METHODS This...
Background and aim
To prospectively evaluate the efficacy of vaccine alone compared with vaccine plus HBIG for preventing HBV transmission in neonates of HBsAg (+)/HBeAg (−)...
This study used a system evaluation method to summarize China\'s experience on improving the coverage of hepatitis B vaccine, especially the strategies employed to improve the uptake of timely birth...
Abstract
Background
In a previous study, Chinese infants were vaccinated with 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) ⩾7 days before routine diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis...
BACKGROUND:
The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of an EPI smartphone application (EPI app) on improving vaccination coverage in rural Sichuan Province, China.
METHODS:
This...
Background
The cost-effectiveness of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in women pre-sexual debut has been demonstrated in many countries. This study aimed to estimate the cost-effectiveness of...
BACKGROUND:
Neonatal hepatitis B vaccination has been implemented worldwide to prevent hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections. Its long-term protective efficacy on primary liver cancer (PLC) and other...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to represent a major health problem and can lead to acute liver failure, acute hepatitis, chronic carriership, chronic hepatitis of HBV, liver cirrhosis, liver...
The public health benefits of vaccination are clear. The World Health Organization estimates that, in 2008, more than 2.5 million deaths were prevented by vaccination.1 Immunization programmes have...
The global incidence of JE is unknown because the intensity and quality of JE surveillance and the availability of diagnostic laboratory testing vary throughout the world. Countries that have...
The Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN) assembled high-profile leaders from global health organisations and vaccine manufactures for its 16th Annual General Meeting to work...
Tremendous progress has been made globally to reduce the contribution of measles to the burden of childhood deaths and measles cases have dramatically decreased with increased two dose...
The international community has successfully promoted childhood vaccination as an essential public health intervention. This has been accomplished through efforts such as the World Health...
Introduction: Origins and Definitions
International cooperation for purposes of infectious and tropical disease control goes back to at least the 14th century, when early concepts of quarantine...
Vaccination coverage surveys - Publication
abstract: Varicella vaccine has been licensed in China for decade
to be used as single dose in children aged ≥ 12 mo of age in
private sector. Little...
Vaccination coverage survey - Publication abstract:The study aimed to assess the determinants of immunization coverage in children born in 2008-2009, living in Zhejiang Province. The World Health...
It is critical to distinguish events that are temporarily associated with, but not caused by, vaccination from those caused by vaccination during mass immunization. The researchers performed a...
The incidence of measles has decreased significantly from 593.5/100,000 in 1951 (peaked at 2721.0/100,000 in 1955), to 0.5/100,000 in 2011 due to increasing vaccination coverage of 95%-99%. Incidence...
Between July 3 and October 9, 2011, investigators identified 21 cases of infection with wild-type poliovirus and 23 clinically compatible cases in southern Xinjiang. Wild-type poliovirus type 1 was...
The reported coverage of the measles–rubella (MR) or measles–mumps–rubella (MMR) vaccine is greater than 99.0% in Zhejiang province. However, the incidence of measles, mumps, and rubella...
In countries where hepatitis A is highly endemic, exposure to hepatitis A virus (HAV) is almost universal before the age of 10years, and large-scale immunization efforts are not required. In...
Active symptom surveillance was applied to three selected communities ( 160 147 persons) in Tianjin from 2010 to 2012. The researchers examined 1089 individuals showing pertussis-like symptoms, of...
In January 2012, polio eradication was declared a \"programmatic emergency for global public health\" by the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1). Since the Global Polio...
Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is still the most effective approach to prevent tuberculosis in childhood. In order to provide protection against severe forms of childhood tuberculosis, it is...
In July 2013, the National Immunization Program of China was notified by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that measles was detected in 3 newly adopted, special needs children with...
Neonatal vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was launched in the 1980s in Qidong, China, where HBV and hepatocellular carcinoma were highly prevalent. Presence of immune memory and...
The study revealed that rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea of children in Hangzhou, especially for children <2 years, which highlight the need of widespread rotavirus immunization for...
During the China GAVI project, implemented between 2002 and 2010, more than 25 million children received hepatitis B vaccine with the support of project, and the vaccine proved to be safe and...
With the implementation of accelerated measles elimination strategies, including maintaining high coverage rates of measles containing vaccine (MCV), employing a sensitive and specific disease...
This 2015 Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report evaluates the progress of the 15 countries with the greatest burden of under-five pneumonia and diarrhea
deaths in implementing high-impact...
Highlights
•Despite a gradual decline in reported measles cases, outbreaks continue to occur.
•Males were more likely than females to acquire measles, especially among very young...
For newborn hepatitis B vaccination in China, the 10 μg strategy should be cost-effective, even more possibly highly cost-effective or cost-saving compared with the current 5 μg strategy. The doses...
The study objectives were to evaluate injection practices in China in the post GAVI project era and provide guidance for policy makers to update national standards for injection practices and further...
Enterovirus 71 (EV71) outbreaks are a socioeconomic burden, especially in the western Pacific region. Results of phase 1 clinical trials suggest an EV71 vaccine has a clinically acceptable safety...
Three types of JE vaccine are used in national immunization programs. Inactivated mouse brain–derived JE vaccine has been available for >50 years, but has a multidose primary and booster schedule...
Surveillance for adverse events following immunization (AEFI) is an important component of any national immunization program. In the People's Republic of China (China), a populous, middle-income...
Measles-containing vaccines (MCV) and pneumococcal vaccines (PCV) can prevent a large proportion of infant deaths and are recommended by international organizations for inclusion in pediatric...
BACKGROUND: Although patients worldwide increasingly are using mobile phone text messaging (SMS) for clinical care- quality data are sparse on the community-level effectiveness of SMS to prevent and...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the coverage of childhood immunization information management system (CIIMS) in China (not include HongKong- Macao- and Taiwan) in 2008. METHODS: Analyzing immunization cases...
OBJECTIVE: To understand the status of the expanded program on immunization (EPI) ralated to the immunization site at towns- and provide reliable base for it. METHODS: Questionnaires about the status...