Country Profile: Poland
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 2 to 15 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups including children with specific underlying health conditions and adults with chronic heart disease, chronic lung disease, diabetes, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, cochlear implant, chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis, alcohol addicts, and smokers; anatomical and functional asplenia, spherocytosis and other hemoglobinopathies, with congenital and acquired asplenia; immunodeficiency, congenital and acquired immunodeficiency, HIV infection, chronic kidney disease and nephrotic syndrome, leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, generalized cancer disease associated with immunosuppressive therapy, including chronic steroid therapy, multiple myeloma
Older adults:
All people over the age of 50
Coverage figures (2020)
Children: 61.83%
At-risk groups: –
Older adults: –
Vaccination advisory body/committee
National Institute of Public Health (Narodowy Instytut Publicznego)
Sources:
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=166
WHO vaccine scheduler: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/schedule-by-disease/pneumo.html?ISO_3_CODE=POL&TARGETPOP_GENERAL=
National Institute of Public Health: https://szczepienia.pzh.gov.pl/szczepionki/pneumokoki/?strona=4#jak-podawac-szczepionke-skoniugowana-i-dla-kogo
Children
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=166
At-risk groups
National Institute of Public Health: https://szczepienia.pzh.gov.pl/szczepionki/pneumokoki/?strona=8#komu-przysluguja-bezplatne-szczepienia-przeciw-pneumokokom
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=166
Older adults aged 50 and over: vaccination is recommended but not funded by the National Health system.
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