What has Resulted from CampaignsAgainst Vaccination ofChildren inDevelopedCountries

Overview

An overview is given on the literature on the campaigns against vaccination of children. Such campaigns wereorganized in the developed countries of the Western Europe and they have occurred recently also in the CzechRepublic. From these actions and namely from the consequence of the limited vaccination it is possible to get animportant lesson and to use them as arguments for our own vaccination program. There is no doubt that vaccinationcan bring some side effects, however, restrictions of vaccination have shown that even in the developed countriesthe disease of an unvaccinated child brings much higher risk of complications than the vaccination itself. Vaccinationbelongs to the basic prevention in the primary care and our paediatricians have to be fully informed about the programin order to outreason the devious arguments of parents. In the risk cases (children with serious preceding reaction,reaction in the history, etc.) it is possible to consult www pages www.ockovanideti.cz or a specialized clinic forvaccination in the Motol hospital. In selected cases it is possible to use for the risk patients also those vaccines,which are not listed in the present routine vaccination programs. Professional societies have to prepare projects ofthe nomenclature of side effects (namely their grading) in the nearest term and in co-operation with legislative tointroduce principles for measures and action in cases of serious side effects of vaccination in children. Though thewww pages on vaccination for parents already exist www.ockovanideti.cz/rodice, it would be useful to publisha booklet for laymen. Paediatricians can contribute to their actualisation and actively participate on reediting of suchthematic booklets.

Key words:
campaigns against vaccination of children, effects of the limited vaccination of children, side and undesirableeffects of vaccination, informedness of paediatricians and laymen, www pages.