MMSL 2018, 87(2):68-73 | DOI: 10.31482/mmsl.2018.017

SUMMARRY OF THE SWISS VACCINATION SYSTEMReview article

František Saňák ORCID...1,2
1 Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
2 Spital Surses, Savognin, Switzerland

Vaccination protects the community as a whole from serious communicable diseases, such as polio, pertussis, diphteria, measles and others. The incidence of these diseases has been successfully reduced in the last decades. Switzerland with its National vaccination strategy takes part in an international effort on public health described in WHO’s 2011-2020 Global Vaccine Action Plan (1), and in the European 2015 - 2020 Vaccine Action Plan (2). However, in contrast to the Czech Republic, Switzerland doesn´t have a compulsory global vaccination schedule. It only presents the vaccination recommendations. Vaccination rates are not always high enough in Switzerland and vary from one region to another.

Keywords: vaccination; Switzerland; vaccination recommendations; high-risk population; national vaccination strategy

Received: February 1, 2018; Revised: April 24, 2018; Prepublished online: April 27, 2018; Published: June 8, 2018  Show citation

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