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Toolbox of useful materials
WHO Reports
- Eliminating measles and rubella: Framework for the verification process in the WHO European Region (2014)
- European Vaccine Action Plan 2015–2020 (2014)
- Measles and Rubella Elimination 2015: Package for accelerated action (2013)
RVC Reports
- 2nd meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) -2013
- 3rd meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) -2014
- 4th meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) -2015
- 5th meeting of the European Regional Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination (RVC) -2016
National Measles Elimination Plans
- Austria (2013)
- Germany (2015)
- Switzerland
- Luxembourg
- Liechtenstein
- Italy (2011)
Recommendations for Healthcare workers
- Austria (2012): Empfehlungen für MitarbeiterInnen des Gesundheitswesens
Recent recommedations for (MMR) vaccinations
- ECDC (continuously updated): Vaccine schedule of EU/EEA Member States
- Austria (2017): Impfplan 2017
- Germany (2016): Impfkalender 2016, Empfehlungen der Ständigen Impfkommission (STIKO) am Robert Koch-Institut – 2016/2017
- Switzerland (2016): Schweizerischer Impfplan 2017
- Italy-Autonomous Province of Bolzano(2014): Impfung schützt
- Luxembourg (2016): Calendrier des vaccinations
Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures for surveillance and outbreaks investigations
WHO Regional Office for Europe
- WHO (2012): Surveillance guidelines for measles, rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in the WHO European Region, update December 2012
- WHO (2013): Guidelines for measles and rubella outbreak investigation and response in the WHO European Region (2013)
- Vaccine safety Net
Participating countries
- Austria (2017): Masern: Personenbezogene Kontroll- und Präventionsmaßnahmen
- Switzerland (2013):Richtlinien zur Bekämpfung von Masern und Masernausbrüchen
- Germany (2017): Fachliche Anwendungshinweise zur Masern-Postexpositionsprophylaxe bei Risikopersonen
Communication research/evidence reviews/guidelines
WHO:
- Vaccine Safety Events: managing the communications response (2013)
- WHO outbreak communication guidelines (2005)
- Best practise: How to respond to vocal vaccine deniers in public (2016)
- Vaccines work: http://www.immunize-europe.org/
- ESPID Wiser Immuniser Online Course
ECDC:
- Let‘s talk about protection (revised version 2016)
- Let’s talk about hesitancy (2016)
- Measles and rubella elimination: communicating the importance of vaccination (2014)
- Review of outbreaks and barriers to MMR vaccination coverage among hard to reach populations in European countries (2012)
- Rapid literature review on motivating hesitant population groups in Europe to vaccinate (2015)
- Vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers and their patients in Europe (2015)
- A literature review of trust and reputation management in communicable disease public health (2011)
- Systematic literature review of the evidence for effective national immunisation schedule promotional communications (2012)
- Inform, protect, immunise: engaging underserved populations (2012)
- Communication on immunisation – Building trust (2012)
Awareness Raising Activities:
- Austria :
- Keinemasern.at
- Tirol-masern.at
- Germany: Deutschland sucht den Impfpass
- Switzerland: Komitee für eine Schweiz ohne Masern, stopmasern.ch, Risikocheck
Infofilm «Stop Masern», TV Spot «Stop Masern»; Testimonial Komitee für eine Schweiz ohne Masern
Measles surveillance data, coverage data and outbreak reports
- ECDC measles surveillance data
- WHO CISID database
- The measles situation in Austria: a rapid risk assessment by an ECDC team and the outcome of an international meeting in Vienna, Austria
- Measles outbreak in Switzerland - an update relevant for the European football championship (EURO 2008)
- Measles in south-west Germany imported from Switzerland - a preliminary outbreak description
- Ongoing measles outbreak in southern Bavaria, Germany
- Measles among healthcare workers: a potential for nosocomial outbreaks
- Spotlight on measles 2010: Measles outbreak among travellers returning from a mass gathering, Germany, September to October 2010
- Measles vaccination advised before travel to World Cup in Germany, but risk of measles infection low
- Measles on a cruise ship: links with the outbreak in the Philippines
- Analysis of national measles surveillance data in Italy from October 2010 to December 2011 and priorities for reaching the 2015 measles elimination goal
- Large measles outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland, January to August 2011: descriptive epidemiology and demonstration of quarantine effectiveness
- Description of measles D4-Hamburg outbreak in Hamburg, Germany, December 2008 to June 2009, which disproportionally affected a local Roma community
- Measles in Europe - A picture of outbreaks inthe EU/EEA (2014)
- Measles in Geneva between 2003 and 2010: persistence of measles outbreaks despite high immunisation coverage
- Ongoing measles outbreak, Geneva, Switzerland, January to March 2011
- Spotlight on measles 2010: Measles outbreak in a mainly unvaccinated community in Essen, Germany, March – June 2010
- Spotlight on measles 2010: Preliminary report of an ongoing measles outbreak in a subpopulation with low vaccination coverage in Berlin, Germany, January-March 2010
- Large measles epidemic in Switzerland from 2006 to 2009: consequences for the elimination of measles in Europe
- Measles outbreak in Styria, Austria, March-May 2009
- An ongoing multi-state outbreak of measles linked to non-immune anthroposophic communities in Austria, Germany, and Norway, March-April 2008
- An outbreak of measles in Lower Bavaria, Germany, January-June 2007
- Cluster of measles cases in the Roma/Sinti population, Italy, June-September 2006
- Measles outbreak in Germany: over 1000 cases now reported in Nordrhein Westfalen
- Measles outbreak in Germany: update
- Outbreaks of measles in Germany, 2006
- Two outbreaks of measles in Germany 2005
- Measles outbreaks in Hessen and Bavaria, Germany, 2005
Meeting reports:
Online simulations and infographics
- ECDC:
- Measles is more infectious than you think (2014)
- Measles : the journey of one outbreak (2014)
- Measles in Europe (2014)
- Germany:
- Herdenimmunität Simulator
- Lichtaktion "Gegen Masern punkten" in Zeitraffer (2016)
Other useful links
- Switzerland:
- Electronic Vaccination Card:
- Vaccination software (viavac)
- Lions Club International (2010): Lions' Work: Lions Measles Initiative | One Shot, One Life
- Do European doctors support measles, mumps, rubella vaccination programmes enough?
- Stepping up European measles surveillance
- Measles still spreads in Europe: who is responsible for the failure to vaccinate?
- On-line Global/WHO-European Regional Measles Nucleotide Surveillance
- Measles is still a cause for concern in Europe
Films
- euronews science - Masern: Der Kampf gegen die vergessene Krankheit
- Masern-Ausbruch in Berlin - Impfgegnern sei Dank (2015)
- Masern (CH 2014)
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