Vaccination : one French person in four has doubts

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Published the 19.10.2017 at 08: 00

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The vaccination is no longer unanimously approved in France. One person out of two is not favourable to the gesture itself, according to the Health Barometer 2016. The latest results of this survey are published in a thematic issue of the Bulletin Epidemiological Weekly, published by public Health France on 16 October.

The national agency of the public health act the existence of a lingering doubt in the country. At the heart of the doubts, the interest of the vaccination requirement should be expanded in 2018. From 3 to 11 vaccines, it is not self-evident to the French. Public health France has therefore developed a package of teaching materials to families.

A consultation open

The paper discusses the bases of vaccination – how to get a collective protection, how to develop the strategy of vaccination coverage, but also what is the interest of each individual vaccine.

This folder is needed more than ever in light of the results of the Health Barometer 2016. Especially when the answers are put in parallel with the interviews conducted during the citizen consultation on vaccination, published for the first time.

“On the eve of the parliamentary debate on the vaccination requirement, it has become important, on the one hand, to publish in the BEH the results of this work, which have informed the policy committee of the citizen consultation and, on the other hand, to present the arguments of nature of disease, show the importance of improving the immunization coverage of young children,” explains François Bourdillon, the director of public Health in France.

The old vaccines supported

Vaccines are not the subject of an approval universal. Four in ten French say they are adverse to one or more vaccinations. The seasonal flu is the leading critical, followed by those against hepatitis B and the human papillomavirus (hpv).

In fact, despite the poor level of knowledge of civil, they maintain their confidence in the vaccines of the oldest. Thus, DTP and MMR remain relatively spared by this phenomenon, although doubts are growing. This is reflected in the interviews conducted on the occasion of collective consultation.

Among the 12 groups of French people interviewed, almost all say they support the DTP, which is currently mandatory. They are also likely to get it wrong, thinking that the MMR is also imposed on the population. Wrong. But if these vaccinations are also well perceived, it is also because the collective interest of these strains is recognized.