Empower, educate, and unite communities and healthcare professionals across Europe to enhance vaccination coverage and protect against vaccine-preventable diseases. Our innovative campaigns, strategic collaborations, and evidence-based advocacy aim to dismantle barriers to vaccination, boost confidence in vaccines, and strengthen health system resilience.

The Vaccines Together Initiative champions a Lifecourse vaccination strategy by forming robust partnerships with organisations and experts in prevention and health policy. This collaborative approach not only tackles the challenges of vaccine uptake but ensures comprehensive protection at all life stages, fostering public health resilience and community welfare.

Join Our Survey to Assess the RSV Burden in Primary Care and Private Practice Settings

With the onset of the RSV season, our attention turns to the pressures hospital facilities and intensive care units face. However, the significant burden of bronchiolitis and pneumonia resulting from RSV infections in infants and young children within primary care settings remains less understood. To effectively design and implement comprehensive prevention policies, it is crucial to understand the full scope of RSV's impact, not only on our hospitals but also on primary care providers and private practice pediatricians, who often face intense challenges during this time.

The Excellence in Pediatrics Institute has initiated a survey targeting our network of frontline pediatricians. We aim to assess the burden on healthcare providers, families, and patients, understand the practices followed, and identify necessary interventions to enhance prevention. Furthermore, we aim to monitor and compare this season's trends with those of previous seasons based on firsthand accounts from those who encounter these cases at the outset. Read more

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Join Our Survey on Vaccination Equity

Primary care physicians, including frontline pediatricians and general practitioners, are integral to community health networks. They engage with virtually all community members on a wide array of health issues, placing them in a unique position to observe and understand the many complex factors influencing health decisions within these populations.

National immunisation statistics often fail to capture the granularity needed to pinpoint precisely which local populations are under-vaccinated. Traditional metrics focus on broad comparisons, such as the disparities between the best and worst-performing geographical areas, but they overlook the nuanced differences among subgroups within these regions.

The primary objective of this survey is to delve deeper into these issues by collecting detailed insights directly from primary care physicians. We aim to focus on the pockets of low vaccination coverage within communities of mixed socio-economic backgrounds and to understand which factors contribute most to parents' decisions to avoid vaccinating their children or skip scheduled vaccinations. In addition, we aim to understand the dynamics among members of the same communities, with many deciding to follow the national immunisation guidelines and their physicians' recommendations while others, even though they live in the same community and may see the same physician, are not compliant.    

Equity in healthcare access within the same community is a complex issue that transcends mere geographical proximity to health services. Even when individuals live in the same area, their access to healthcare can vary dramatically due to a myriad of factors. It's essential to recognise that equitable access is not just about physical availability but also about the fairness and inclusiveness of health service delivery that meets the diverse needs of all community members.

We urge you to join us in this important initiative by completing the survey before 14 November 2024. Your input is crucial in shaping the strategies to reduce health inequities by ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their socio-economic status or community type, have equitable access to vital healthcare services. Thank you for taking the time to share your views.

This survey was developed in collaboration between EIP and Pfizer.

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