ReviewActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2021
Impact that the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood vaccinations and challenges ahead: A narrative review.
Review in Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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52 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 89 citations in OpenAlex.
- The association between vaccine hesitancy and pertussis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2023Pooled it
- The impact of COVID-19 and catch-up strategies on routine childhood vaccine coverage trends in Latin America: A systematic literature review and database analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Pooled it
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- Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Validating the PACV Survey for Croatian Parents.Infectious disease reports · 2025Article
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- Navigating parental attitudes on childhood vaccination in Jordan: a cross-sectional study.International journal of environmental health research · 2025Article
- Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on women and children: a Zimbabwean case study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Insufficient immune protection in preterm infants due to delayed or incomplete hexavalent vaccination.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Time trend of measles burden on children and adolescents in BRICS-plus countries from 1990 to 2021 and prediction to 2032.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilization of essential health services in Iran evidence from an interrupted time series analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Assessing the impact of booster vaccination on diphtheria transmission: Mathematical modeling and risk zone mapping.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2024Article
- [Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the immunization program for children under 5 years of age in EcuadorEfeitos da pandemia de COVID-19 no programa de imunização de menores de cinco anos no Equador].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Mapping changes in the utilization of childhood immunization over 5 years in a south Indian tertiary care hospital.Therapeutic advances in vaccines and immunotherapy · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Vaccines in the Pediatric Population: A Focus on Cardiac Patients.The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale · 2024Review
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8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
aimTo document the decline in vaccination coverage in the first months of 2020 as an indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodsWe performed a literature review in medical databases. Overall, 143 articles were initially retrieved, out of which 48 were selected and included in the review.
resultsOur review retrieved similar data in many countries worldwide, and, globally, preliminary data from the first 4 months of 2020 indicate a decline in diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis coverage, generally considered the marker of vaccination coverage across countries. World Health Organization recommends maintaining vaccination services, prioritising primary series vaccinations especially for measles-rubella or poliomyelitis, but it also lets each country decide whether to maintain the immunisation services evaluating the current epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and the COVID-19 local transmission scenario. Successively, recovering of vaccinations should be planned. Moreover, during the pandemic, influenza vaccination should be promoted as a central public health measure.
conclusionFuture challenges will be to maintain the vaccination programmes, especially in children younger than 2 years old and adolescents, to plan the recovery of vaccinations for subjects who postponed them during the lockdown, and to early identify any vaccine-preventable disease outbreak.
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