Country Profile: Portugal
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 2 to 12 months (with boosters at 12 months)
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups of any age
Older adults:
All people over the age of 65
Coverage figures
Children: 98.00% (2021)
At-risk groups: 14.00%1 (2016)
Older adults: 15.00%2 (2017)
Vaccination advisory body/committee
Technical Committee on Immunisation (Comissão Técnica de Vacinação)
Notes:
1 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 1001 people aged 50 years and over
2 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 493 people aged 65 years and over
Sources:
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=167
Directorate-General for Health: https://www.dgs.pt/paginas-de-sistema/saude-de-a-a-z/programa-nacional-de-vacinacao/vacinas-do-pnv/infecoes-por-streptococcus-pneumoniae.aspx
Children
WHO: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/coverage/pcv.html?CODE=PRT&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=167
At-risk groups
Directorate-General for Health: https://www.dgs.pt/paginas-de-sistema/saude-de-a-a-z/programa-nacional-de-vacinacao/vacinas-do-pnv/infecoes-por-streptococcus-pneumoniae.aspx
Older adults
Directorate-General for Health: https://www.dgs.pt/paginas-de-sistema/saude-de-a-a-z/programa-nacional-de-vacinacao/vacinas-do-pnv/infecoes-por-streptococcus-pneumoniae.aspx
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