Vaccination Day: India observes National Vaccination Day on March 16.
National Vaccination Day or Immunization Day is observed in India every year on March 16. India observes National Vaccination Day to convey to the people of the country the importance of vaccination. For over a hundred and fifty years, vaccines have saved people from diseases that would have hampered progress of humanity. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines have brought the world together in a way that we have never seen before. India has emerged a leader in the vaccination drive against the Covid-19 pandemic.
What is vaccination and immunization?
People often use the two words, vaccination and immunization, interchangeably. But there is a fundamental difference between the two. While vaccination is the act of giving or administering the vaccine, immunization refers to becoming immune to certain diseases after taking the vaccine shot. Vaccination and immunization are very important in a country s basic health c
Hepatitis B virus infection and associated risk factors among medical students in eastern Ethiopia
Tewodros Tesfa , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Behailu Hawulte, Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Public Health and Policy Unit, School of Public Health, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Validation
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of routine immunization services in Lebanon
Ziad Mansour,
Jinan Arab ,
Randa Hamadeh,
Bernard Gerbaka, Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Emergencies, Department of Pediatrics, Hôtel-Dieu de France, Beirut, Lebanon ⨯
Abdul Rahman Bizri Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon ⨯
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of routine immunization services in Lebanon
Ziad Mansour,
Introduction
The global abrupt progression of the COVID-19 pandemic may disrupt critical life-saving services such as routine immunization (RI), thus increasing the susceptibility of countries to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). Being endemic to several infectious
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Estimated impact of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on pneumonia mortality in South Africa, 1999 through 2016: An ecological modelling study
Jackie Kleynhans , Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis (CRDM), National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannes
Evaluation of a ‘serious game’ on nursing student knowledge and uptake of influenza vaccination
Gary Mitchell ,
Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom ⨯
Gillian Carter,
Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom ⨯
Olinda Santin,
Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom ⨯
Christine Brown Wilson
Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom ⨯
Evaluation of a ‘serious game’ on nursing student knowledge and uptake of influenza vaccination
Gary Mitchell,
Background
Influenza is a serious global healthcare issue that is associated with between 290,000 to 650,000 deaths annually. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of a ‘serious game’ about influenza, on nursing student attitude, k