Pneumococcal Vaccination Atlas

Country Profile: Greece

Recommendations

Children:
Children aged 2 to 12 months and catch-up at 15 months and 5 years (if previous doses missed)

At-risk groups:
At-risk groups aged 18-64

Older adults:
All people over the age of 60

Coverage figures

Children: 95.60% (2021)

At-risk groups: 21.00%¹ (2016)

Older adults: 25.00%² (2017)

Vaccination advisory body/committee

National Vaccination Committee (Εθνική Επιτροπή Εμβολιασμών)

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 513 people aged 65 years and over.

Sources:

ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=82

Children

WHO: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/coverage/pcv.html?CODE=GRC&ANTIGEN=PCV1+PCV2+PCV3&YEAR=

At-risk groups

Ipsos: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/migrations/en-uk/files/Assets/Docs/Publications/ipsos-healthcare-pneu-vue-report-greece.pdf

Older adults

Ipsos: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/publication/documents/2017-10/ipsos-healthcare-pneu-vue-65s-and-over-report_0.pdf

Children

ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=82

At-risk groups

ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=82

Older adults

ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=82

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