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

Children: 91.25% (2021)

At-risk groups: 5.00%1 (2016)

Older adults: 5.00%2 (2017)

Vaccination advisory body/committee

Ministry of Health (Ministero della Salute)

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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.

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