Country Profile: Austria
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 2 to 14 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups aged 2-60, including functional or anatomic asplenia; innate or acquired immune defects; cochlea implants or liquour fistula; prior to organ transplants, after stem cell transplantation, in case of nephrotic syndrome, prior to an immune suppressive therapy; chronic diseases like diseases of the hematopoietic organs; premature babies and children with weight under the 3rd percentile; children with neurological diseases; people after liquor loss, e.g. after trauma or skull surgery; celiac disease. People exposed to metal smoke (e.g. welding)
Older adults:
All people over the age of 61
Coverage figures
Children: 96.00% (2021)
At-risk groups: 11.00%1 (2016)
Older adults: 12.00%2 (2017)
Vaccination advisory body/committee
National Vaccination Board (Nationales Impfgremium)
Notes:
1 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 1000 people aged 50 years and over.
2 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 518 people aged 65 years and over.
Sources:
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=18
WHO vaccine scheduler: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/schedule-by-country/aut.html?DISEASECODE=PNEUMO&TARGETPOP_GENERAL=
National Vaccination Board: https://www.sozialministerium.at/Themen/Gesundheit/Impfen/Impfempfehlungen-Allgemein/Impfempfehlungen-f%C3%BCr-spezielle-Personengruppen.html
Children
VIEW-hub: https://view-hub.org/map/?set=children-vaccinated&group=vaccine-coverage&category=pcv&iso=AUT
At risk groups
Older adults
Children
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=18
At risk groups
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=18
At-risk groups aged 3-5 years: vaccination is recommended but not funded by the National Health system.
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=18
Older adults aged 61 and over: vaccination is recommended but not funded by the National Health system.
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