European Immunisation Week 23rd -29th April 2019

European Immunization Week (EIW) promotes the core message that immunization is vital to prevent diseases and protect life. The slogan – Prevent. Protect. Immunize. – carries this message across the Region.

The goal of EIW is to increase vaccination coverage by raising awareness of the importance of immunization among parents and caregivers, health care professionals, policy and decision-makers, and the media.

For more information surrounding immunisations please visit the NHS Choices and World Health Organizations websites: 

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/

http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/disease-prevention/vaccines-and-immunization/european-immunization-week

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of successful immunization completion, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS

• Immunisation against infectious disease / David Salisbury; Karen Noakes; Mary Ramsay et al, 2006, [London: Department of Health].
• Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver / Arthur. Allen, 2007, [New York : W.W. Norton].
• Vaccines : what everyone needs to know / Kristen A. Feemster, 2018, [New York, NY : Oxford University Press].
• Notes for the MRCGP : a curriculum based guide to the AKT, CSA and WBPA / K. T. Palmer Nicholas K Boeckx, 2009, 4th edition, [Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell]
• Practice nurse handbook / Gillian D. Hampson, 2006, 5th edition, [Oxford : Blackwell]. Online access also available.
• The immune system / Peter Parham, 2014, 4th edition, [New York : Garland Science].
• Control of communicable diseases manual / David L. Heymann; American Public Health Association, 2015, 20th edition, [Washington, DC : American Public Health Association].
• Public health ethics : key concepts and issues in policy and practice / Angus Dawson, 2011, [Cambridge : Cambridge University Press].

JOURNALS

• Procedia in vaccinology, Amsterdam : Elsevier. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2009 - 2015].
• Molecular therapy oncolytics, Cambridge : Cell Press. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2014 onwards].
• Immunization newsletter, Washington, D.C. : Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of the World Health Organization, Immunization Unit [Available as a Keele ejournal 2007 - 2013].
• Morbidity and mortality weekly report Recommendations and Reports, Atlanta, Ga. : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public [Available as a Keele 1996 onwards and as a NHS ejournal 2008 onwards].
• Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, American Society for Microbiology. [Available as a NHS ejournal 1994 onwards with 6 month embargo and as a Keele ejournal 2006 – 2017].
• Vaccine, Elsevier. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 2002 onwards].
• European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology, Akadémiai Kiadó. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2011 onwards].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Backx, Matthijs ; Freedman, Andrew, “Immunization”, Medicine (UK ed.), 2013, Vol.41(11), pp.628-634. [Available in print, and via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
• Mohanty, Salini ; Feemster, Kristen A ; et al, “Factors Associated With Pediatrician Responses to Alternative Immunization Schedule Requests”, Clinical Pediatrics, 2018, Vol.57(2), pp.180-188. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
• Prins, Wendy ; Butcher, Emily et al, “ Improving adult immunization equity: Where do the published research literature and existing resources lead?”, Vaccine, 2017, Vol.35(23), pp.3020-3025. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
• Giebink, Gs ; Bakaletz, Lo et al, “Vaccine”, Annals Of Otology Rhinology And Laryngology,  2005, Vol.114(1) Suppl 194, pp.86-103. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
• Manca, Terra, "One of the greatest medical success stories:" Physicians and nurses’ small stories about vaccine knowledge and anxieties”, Social Science & Medicine, 2018, Vol.196, pp.182-189. [Available via Keele ejournals]
• Whitford K et al., “Long-term impact of infant immunization on hepatitis B prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis.”, Bulletin Of The World Health Organization, 2018, Vol.96(7), pp. 484-497. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
• Paterson, Pauline; Chantler, Tracey; Larson, Heidi J; “Reasons for non-vaccination: Parental vaccine hesitancy and the childhood influenza vaccination school pilot programme in England.”, Vaccine, 2018, Vol.36(36), p. 5397-5401. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals]
• Mina, Michael J, “Measles, immune suppression and vaccination: direct and indirect nonspecific vaccine benefits.”, The Journal of infection; 2017, Vol. 74 (Supplement 1), pp.S10-S17. [Available via a Keele & NHS ejournals].

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

• NHS website – Vaccinations section https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/
• NHS Evidence  - Immunisation search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=immunisation&sp=on
• NHS Evidence  - Vaccination search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=vaccination
• Patient.info - Immunisation https://patient.info/childrens-health/immunisation
• Gov.UK Immunisation page – scroll down to the ‘Immunisation leaflets and guidance for parents’ section https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immunisation

CURRENT AWARENESS

• Health Library current awareness service https://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Welcome
• LERC current awareness service http://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary