The Ministry of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare and the Health Councilors have agreed in the plenary of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) the approval of the first common vaccination schedule for all ages.
This calendar includes, in addition to the immunizations of the childhood stage, vaccination recommendations in risk groups (also pregnant) and in the adult population.
As explained by the Minister of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare, María Luisa Carcedo, the calendar approved this week means that:
“For the first time there is a vaccine management agreement. Beyond being able to act in a similar way throughout Spain, this agreement has an added epidemiological value ”.
The calendar is the result of a work carried out in almost two years, and has the approval of those responsible for vaccination of all the Autonomous Communities and other State administrations, and is supported by 19 scientific societies in the field of immunization, as The Ministry has commented.
It is added to the already agreed schedule of childhood vaccination in which the doses that children should receive from birth to 14 years are established.
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- The lifelong calendar includes the systematic administration of vaccines for the prevention of 14 infectious diseases: polio, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, haemophilus influenzae b disease, measles, rubella, mumps, hepatitis B, meningococcal disease C, chicken pox, human papillomavirus (
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Protection during pregnancy also immunizes newborns during the first months of life: against influenza and whooping cough, for example.
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Also includes vaccination recommendations in some diseases and risk conditions more prevalent such as immunosuppression, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes, liver disease or pregnancy.
Reminder for those who are not vaccinated
The new calendar is a way to 'capture' the attention of unvaccinated people to encourage them to do so: for example, the human papillomavirus vaccine in girls and boys, hepatitis C and meningococcal disease C; or vaccination against tetanus, diphtheria and measles, rubella and mumps up to 65 years.
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As published by this body of the Spanish Association of Pediatrics:
"The vaccination calendar throughout life does not bring any news, since the proposals it contains are already common practice in all autonomous communities."
And he adds that:
"Again, an opportunity is lost for the inclusion of vaccinations such as rotavirus in infants, meningococci B and ACWY in children and adolescents, as well as that of conjugate pneumococcus in older adults."
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And he ends his reflection about the new calendar, ensuring that "hurry is not understood" of the Ministry to present it, without explaining "the procedure for the elaboration of said proposal, nor the reasons that support it".
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