Search

Disease prevention is essential both for the health of patients and the health care system budget. One of the most suggestive examples of effective disease prevention is the immunization program, applied worldwide, including in Romania. Its many long-term benefits are easily perceptible. Among its remarkable achievements, we can mention the eradication of smallpox, almost the elimination of polio and the drop in the incidence of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, rubella, mumps, Haemophilus influenzae type B infection and others. However, the success of an immunization program depends not only on the technological advances in health care, but also on the compliance of population, the belief that vaccination is beneficial and the wide vaccinal coverage. Certain factors block the consistently efforts to prevent, control or even eradicate several potentially devastating infectious diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Infectio.ro is the property of MEDICHUB MEDIA, S.R.L. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

We must never forget the importance of medicine for public health. In previous decades, efforts have led to the eradication of only 2 infectious diseases. Beginnings with the year 1998 actions have been taken to eradicate the polio virus, although desire has not been realized even today. In the 2013-2014 period the number of poliomyelitis cases reported at the global level has risen significantly. The situation has been characterized as an "epidemiological urgency" by specialized international institutions. It is important that, starting with this case study, we analyze if the recommendations regarding the prevention and control of infectious diseases are truly implemented in our country. We must participate as a team to this collective effort, and understand the important risks both in terms of public health as well as at the individual level, in the setting in which the degree of involvement to sustain an adequate surveillance system is not at the desired level and is not within the known parameters presented in the specialty textbooks. In this sense, we have to contribute both through the knowledge of important notions of public health as a whole and vaccinations in particular, as well as through dissemination of this information to the general population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]