Open AccessSEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINATION COVERAGE: EHIS SURVEY RESULTS VERSUS OECD STATISTICS
Author(s) -
Lucia Blazinska,
Predrag Đurić,
Martin Rusňák,
Fiona O’May
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
periodyk naukowy akademii polonijnej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2543-8204
pISSN - 1895-9911
DOI - 10.23856/3001
Subject(s) - seasonal influenza , vaccination , population , measure (data warehouse) , environmental health , statistics , geography , medicine , mathematics , covid-19 , computer science , virology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , database
Seasonal influenza vaccination is one of the most important tools of prevention. Countries currently use many different methodologies to measure national influenza vaccine coverage in populations at higher risk. The study uses two main data sources: The European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) (collected by Eurostat) and OECD statistics, and compares both results. Findings showed that the EHIS survey results observed in this study are mainly lower than OECD data. This can mean that international sources provide overestimated data of coverage compared to outcomes from population surveys.