Hepatitis-B-Impfstrategien

Raoul Kammerlander, Hanspeter Zimmermann and Bernard Vaudaux

International Journal of Public Health, 1998, vol. 43, issue 1, S41-S43

Abstract: With the introduction of a vaccine against hepatitis B in the early 1980s, a vaccination strategy targeted at high risk groups was implemented in most developed countries. Although such a strategy is efficient on an individual basis, it has been shown that it only has a limited impact on the overall rate of infections in the population. Public health authorities were therefore prompted to additionally recommend a universal vaccination strategy to reduce and ultimately eliminate hepatitis B infections. The option to primarily vaccinate infants, adolescents or both age groups depends on the epidemiological situation of a country, the availability of organisational facilities, financial resources and acceptability. Combining a targeted and a universal vaccination strategy provides the optimal protection against hepatitis B, both at an individual and population level. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag 1998

Date: 1998
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/BF02042174 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ijphth:v:43:y:1998:i:1:p:s41-s43

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/00038

DOI: 10.1007/BF02042174

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Thomas Kohlmann, Nino Künzli and Andrea Madarasova Geckova

More articles in International Journal of Public Health from Springer, Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().