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The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program
Previous studies have shown that seasonal influenza strikes annually causing millions to fall sick and several hundred thousand to die globally. Hence, universal vaccination is a public health aim to control influenza. The Hong Kong Government started to introduce the School Outreach Vaccination (SO...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920126/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34714715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1989916 |
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author | Wong, Wilfred Hing-Sang Peare, Sinéad Lam, Hiu Ying Chow, Chun Bong Lau, Yu Lung |
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description | Previous studies have shown that seasonal influenza strikes annually causing millions to fall sick and several hundred thousand to die globally. Hence, universal vaccination is a public health aim to control influenza. The Hong Kong Government started to introduce the School Outreach Vaccination (SOV) program in 2018 to increase vaccination rates in children. This study looked at the impact this had on hospital admissions and estimated vaccination rates in the total population, using a questionnaire-based tool. The SOV program significantly increased vaccination coverage rates with a 1% increase associated with a reduction of 4.3 influenza-related hospital admissions of school-aged children. The estimation of vaccine coverage rates among the under 5-year olds (48.5%), primary school children (69.3%) and over 65-year olds (45.7%), through the questionnaire-based tool, was within the 95% confidence interval of the coverage rates published by the Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Government, 47.4%, 68.1% and 45.8%, respectively. Extension of the SOV program should be considered in secondary schools to increase the coverage rates in adolescents. The questionnaire survey may inform government how to achieve universal vaccination for specific age groups. |
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spelling | pubmed-89201262022-03-15 The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program Wong, Wilfred Hing-Sang Peare, Sinéad Lam, Hiu Ying Chow, Chun Bong Lau, Yu Lung Hum Vaccin Immunother Influenza – Research Paper Previous studies have shown that seasonal influenza strikes annually causing millions to fall sick and several hundred thousand to die globally. Hence, universal vaccination is a public health aim to control influenza. The Hong Kong Government started to introduce the School Outreach Vaccination (SOV) program in 2018 to increase vaccination rates in children. This study looked at the impact this had on hospital admissions and estimated vaccination rates in the total population, using a questionnaire-based tool. The SOV program significantly increased vaccination coverage rates with a 1% increase associated with a reduction of 4.3 influenza-related hospital admissions of school-aged children. The estimation of vaccine coverage rates among the under 5-year olds (48.5%), primary school children (69.3%) and over 65-year olds (45.7%), through the questionnaire-based tool, was within the 95% confidence interval of the coverage rates published by the Center for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Government, 47.4%, 68.1% and 45.8%, respectively. Extension of the SOV program should be considered in secondary schools to increase the coverage rates in adolescents. The questionnaire survey may inform government how to achieve universal vaccination for specific age groups. Taylor & Francis 2021-10-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8920126/ /pubmed/34714715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1989916 Text en © 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
spellingShingle | Influenza – Research Paper Wong, Wilfred Hing-Sang Peare, Sinéad Lam, Hiu Ying Chow, Chun Bong Lau, Yu Lung The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program |
title | The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program |
title_full | The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program |
title_fullStr | The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program |
title_full_unstemmed | The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program |
title_short | The estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in Hong Kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program |
title_sort | estimated age-group specific influenza vaccine coverage rates in hong kong and the impact of the school outreach vaccination program |
topic | Influenza – Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8920126/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34714715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1989916 |
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