Review article

Impact of vaccination on vaccine-preventable disease burden in Croatia

BERNARD KAIĆ orcid.org/0009-0008-9377-1395 ; Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Rockefellerova 7, 10000 Zagreb Croatia

Abstract

The epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases is a result of numerous factors, among which organized active immunization is one of the most important. Analysis of trends in disease incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases is an adequate way to provide evidence of impact of vaccination on disease burden.

In this manuscript, trends in vaccine-preventable diseases in Croatia are analyzed. Due to high vaccination coverage with safe and efficacious vaccines, some diseases like poliomyelitis and diphtheria have been eliminated in Croatia, while measles and rubella are at the point of elimination and burden of other vaccine-preventable diseases has been reduced significantly. Until recently, most of the vaccines used in the national immunization schedule have been produced by the Institute of Immunology, Zagreb, and the reduction of disease incidence is largely attributable to the Institute’s vaccines. This especially refers to the Koprowski oral polio vaccine, measles, mumps, rubella and diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis vaccines.

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Hrčak ID:

94069

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/94069

Publication date:

1.6.2012.

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