Develop the active surveillance system for vaccine safety in China
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-9624.2019.07.003
- VernacularTitle: 加快我国疫苗安全主动监测系统建设的思考
- Author:
Ting CAI
1
;
Siyan ZHAN
Author Information
1. School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Vaccines;
Adverse event following immunization;
Active surveillance
- From:
Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine
2019;53(7):664-667
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Post-marketing surveillance of vaccine safety is an important measure to detect adverse events following immunization and therefore reduce the harms to public health. The conventional method for safety surveillance is a passive way through spontaneous reporting, which suffer from under-reporting and incomplete. While active surveillance, a newly proposed surveillance method in developed countries, is capable to make up the deficiencies of passive surveillance. The surveillance system of vaccine safety in China is currently using passive surveillance, and facing many problems and challenges. This arouses a need to promote development of an active surveillance system for vaccine safety in China, learning from the experience world-wide. This commentary aims to throw out suggestions for establishing the active surveillance system, according to the specific situation in China and based on a scoping review of literature.
