Progress in assessment of vaccine on herd protection.
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2018.06.032
- VernacularTitle:评估疫苗群体保护的研究进展
- Author:
P F JIN
1
;
J X LI
;
F C ZHU
Author Information
1. Institute for Clinical Evaluation of Vaccines, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing 210009, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Cluster-randomized clinical trial;
Herd immunity;
Herd protection;
Observational study;
Vaccine
- MeSH:
China/epidemiology*;
Communicable Disease Control;
Communicable Diseases/immunology*;
Humans;
Immunity, Herd/immunology*;
Research Design;
Vaccination/trends*;
Vaccines/immunology*
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2018;39(6):862-866
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The importance of vaccine on public health is related to the herd protection related to the levels of vaccine coverage, which directly influences the vaccinated individuals as well as the unvaccinated community. Reaching the level of herd protection by increasing vaccine coverage is the basic strategy to eradicate related infectious diseases. Again, herd protection has played an important role in public health practices. With the increasing interests in estimating the vaccine herd protection, we however, have seen only few relevant papers including observational population-based and cluster-randomized clinical trials reported in China. We hope to discuss the study designs for evaluating the vaccine herd protection in order to generate evidence-based related research in this field.
