It emphasizes the importance of social networks to strengthen parental understanding and beliefs and the benefits of personal and direct collaboration with health professionals. The findings concerning the democratization of science and its distancing from state authorities that are sanctioning and socially created ignorance or the production of ignorance, often with the help of professional communicators.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 35493981The theory and practice of communicating beetwen pediatricians and parents on the difficult and demanding topics of vaccination was presented
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 35493469Lowering immunization coverage which weare facing in Slovenia and in other countries in the world, can have fatal consequences for the entire population. The results and possible approaches in this area in the future are presented
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 3885285We estimated the average annual burden of TBEV infection using the Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) toolkit developed by ECDC and expressed it in Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) with 95% uncertainty intervals. A targeted vaccination policy guided only by incidence rate would not address the substantial burden of infection among school children. We advise that due to the high burden of TBEV infection and the ease of access to this population trough the existing national vaccination program, school children should be taken into consideration for the allocation of resources to offer free vaccination against TBE in order to maximise the impact of such intervention.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 3940837In Slovenia, various organizations and individuals are engaged in the field of infectious diseases and vaccination, occasionally together, and more often, they are not harmonised. There is no central administrator to monitor data and activities across different sectors and at different levels. However, there is an increasing need for a joint body or institution that would assume responsibility for the integration and involvement of all stakeholders in the field of communication, as this is a gaining increasing importance in ensuring adequate immunisation coverage. A proposal is to establish a fully authorised body at the national level for the management (planning, implementation and evaluation) of communication in the field of vaccination.
F.26 Improvements to existing organisational structure and managerial solutions
COBISS.SI-ID: 4168677