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Report on WHO meeting on immunization in older adults: Geneva, Switzerland, 22–23 March 2017

Many industrialized countries have implemented routine immunization policies for older adults, but similar strategies have not been widely implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In March 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting to identify policies and activitie...

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Autores principales: Teresa Aguado, M., Barratt, Jane, Beard, John R., Blomberg, Bonnie B., Chen, Wilbur H., Hickling, Julian, Hyde, Terri B., Jit, Mark, Jones, Rebecca, Poland, Gregory A., Friede, Martin, Ortiz, Justin R.
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Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29336923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.12.029
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author Teresa Aguado, M.
Barratt, Jane
Beard, John R.
Blomberg, Bonnie B.
Chen, Wilbur H.
Hickling, Julian
Hyde, Terri B.
Jit, Mark
Jones, Rebecca
Poland, Gregory A.
Friede, Martin
Ortiz, Justin R.
author_facet Teresa Aguado, M.
Barratt, Jane
Beard, John R.
Blomberg, Bonnie B.
Chen, Wilbur H.
Hickling, Julian
Hyde, Terri B.
Jit, Mark
Jones, Rebecca
Poland, Gregory A.
Friede, Martin
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description Many industrialized countries have implemented routine immunization policies for older adults, but similar strategies have not been widely implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In March 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting to identify policies and activities to promote access to vaccination of older adults, specifically in LMICs. Participants included academic and industry researchers, funders, civil society organizations, implementers of global health interventions, and stakeholders from developing countries with adult immunization needs. These experts reviewed vaccine performance in older adults, the anticipated impact of adult vaccination programs, and the challenges and opportunities of building or strengthening an adult and older adult immunization platforms. Key conclusions of the meeting were that there is a need for discussion of new opportunities for vaccination of all adults as well as for vaccination of older adults, as reflected in the recent shift by WHO to a life-course approach to immunization; that immunization in adults should be viewed in the context of a much broader model based on an individual’s abilities rather than chronological age; and that immunization beyond infancy is a global priority that can be successfully integrated with other interventions to promote healthy ageing. As WHO is looking ahead to a global Decade of Healthy Ageing starting in 2020, it will seek to define a roadmap for interdisciplinary collaborations to integrate immunization with improving access to preventive and other healthcare interventions for adults worldwide.
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spelling pubmed-58653892018-03-23 Report on WHO meeting on immunization in older adults: Geneva, Switzerland, 22–23 March 2017 Teresa Aguado, M. Barratt, Jane Beard, John R. Blomberg, Bonnie B. Chen, Wilbur H. Hickling, Julian Hyde, Terri B. Jit, Mark Jones, Rebecca Poland, Gregory A. Friede, Martin Ortiz, Justin R. Vaccine Article Many industrialized countries have implemented routine immunization policies for older adults, but similar strategies have not been widely implemented in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In March 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting to identify policies and activities to promote access to vaccination of older adults, specifically in LMICs. Participants included academic and industry researchers, funders, civil society organizations, implementers of global health interventions, and stakeholders from developing countries with adult immunization needs. These experts reviewed vaccine performance in older adults, the anticipated impact of adult vaccination programs, and the challenges and opportunities of building or strengthening an adult and older adult immunization platforms. Key conclusions of the meeting were that there is a need for discussion of new opportunities for vaccination of all adults as well as for vaccination of older adults, as reflected in the recent shift by WHO to a life-course approach to immunization; that immunization in adults should be viewed in the context of a much broader model based on an individual’s abilities rather than chronological age; and that immunization beyond infancy is a global priority that can be successfully integrated with other interventions to promote healthy ageing. As WHO is looking ahead to a global Decade of Healthy Ageing starting in 2020, it will seek to define a roadmap for interdisciplinary collaborations to integrate immunization with improving access to preventive and other healthcare interventions for adults worldwide. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2018-02-08 2018-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5865389/ /pubmed/29336923 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.12.029 Text en © 2017 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Barratt, Jane
Beard, John R.
Blomberg, Bonnie B.
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Hickling, Julian
Hyde, Terri B.
Jit, Mark
Jones, Rebecca
Poland, Gregory A.
Friede, Martin
Ortiz, Justin R.
Report on WHO meeting on immunization in older adults: Geneva, Switzerland, 22–23 March 2017
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title_short Report on WHO meeting on immunization in older adults: Geneva, Switzerland, 22–23 March 2017
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865389/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29336923
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.12.029
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