Country Profile: Czechia
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 3 to 13 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups aged 2-64, including chronic lung disease (includes moderate and severe bronchial asthma), with long-term medical treatment; persons with heart disease and/or large vessels with long-term systemic medical treatment, such as hypertension; people with chronic kidney and liver disease; patients with diabetes mellitus; patients with an immune disorder system (eg patients with immunosuppressive treatment (steroids, HIV infections, etc.) and asplenia / hyposplenia; patients with anticancer treatment; patients before / after solid organ and / or bone marrow transplantation; people with severe obesity (BMI over 40 kg / m2)
Older adults:
All people over the age of 65
Coverage figures
At-risk groups: 4.00%1 (2016)
Older adults: 4.00%2 (2017)
Vaccination advisory body/committee
National Immunization Commission (Národní imunizační komise)
Notes:
1 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 1002 people aged 50 years and over.
2 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 468 people aged 65 years and over.
Sources:
Children
VIEW-hub: https://view-hub.org/map/?set=children-vaccinated&group=vaccine-coverage&category=pcv&iso=CZE
At risk groups
Older adults
Children
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=201
At risk groups
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=201
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=201
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