Classification of Vaccination and Immunization Schedule Recommended by the Korean Pediatric Society, 2008.
10.5124/jkma.2008.51.2.104
- Author:
Hoan Jong LEE
1
Author Information
1. Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea. hoanlee@snu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Immunization;
Vaccine;
Guideline
- MeSH:
Chickenpox Vaccine;
Child;
Communicable Diseases, Emerging;
Disease Outbreaks;
Encephalitis, Japanese;
Hepatitis A Vaccines;
Hepatitis B Vaccines;
Humans;
Immunization;
Immunization Schedule;
Infant;
Influenza Vaccines;
Influenza, Human;
Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine;
Papilloma;
Parents;
Poliomyelitis;
Public Health;
Rotavirus;
Typhoid Fever;
Vaccination;
Vaccines;
Viruses
- From:Journal of the Korean Medical Association
2008;51(2):104-109
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Immunizations are among the most cost-effective and widely used public health interventions. This is a report on the revision of recommendations for immunization in children by the Korean Pediatric Society. The new classification system of immunization and the new definition of each category of immunization were introduced. Immunization and vaccines were divided into 4 groups: 1) vaccines that should be given to all infants and children (BCG, hepatitis B vaccine, DTaP, Td, polio vaccine, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, MMR, varicella vaccine, influenza vaccine [6~23 months of age], and H. influenzae type b vaccine), 2) those recommended to all infants and children, but the decision of administration can be made by parents (pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, hepatitis A vaccine, influenza vaccine [healthy children > or = 24 months of age], rotavirus vaccine, and human papilloma virus vaccine), 3) those that should be given to high risk group (pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine [high-risk patients > or = 24 months of age], influenza vaccine [high-risk patients > or = 24 months of age], and typhoid vaccine), and 4) those administered for the control of outbreaks or prevention of emerging infectious diseases (all the vaccines that are administered to infants and children can also be administered for the control of outbreaks or prevention of emerging infectious diseases). The immunization schedule recommended by the Korean Pediatric Society is presented. The new edition of the Korean guidelines for immunization in children including detailed descriptions of each vaccine will be published by the end of 2008.
