Country Profile: Italy
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 3 to 11 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups including chronic heart disease; chronic lung diseases; Diabetes mellitus; chronic liver diseases, including liver cirrhosis and chronic alcohol-induced liver disease; chronic alcoholism; subjects with CSF losses from trauma or surgery; presence of cochlear implant; hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia; congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies; HIV infection; conditions of anatomic or functional asplenia and patients candidates for splenectomy; onco-haematological disorders (leukemia, lymphomas and multiple myeloma); diffuse neoplasms; organ or marrow transplant; pathologies requiring long-term immunosuppressive treatment; chronic renal/adrenal insufficiency
Older adults:
All people over the age of 65
Coverage figures
At-risk groups: 5.00%1 (2016)
Older adults: 5.00%2 (2017)
Vaccination advisory body/committee
Ministry of Health (Ministero della Salute)
Notes:
1 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 1008 people aged 50 years and over.
2 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 492 people aged 65 years and over.
Sources:
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=103
Ministry of Health: https://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_pubblicazioni_2571_allegato.pdf
Children
WHO: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/coverage/pcv.html?CODE=ITA&ANTIGEN=PCV1+PCV2+PCV3&YEAR=
At-risk groups
Older adults
Children
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=103
At-risk groups
Ministry of Health: https://www.salute.gov.it/portale/vaccinazioni/dettaglioContenutiVaccinazioni.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=4811&area=vaccinazioni&menu=fasce
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=103
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