Country Profile: Spain
Recommendations
Children:
Children aged 2 to 11 months
At-risk groups:
At-risk groups aged 12-64, including chronic cardiovascular and respiratory disease; serious neurological and neuromuscular diseases; chronic liver disease; diabetes; coeliac disease; immunodeficiencies; immunosuppressive treatment; asplenia or severe non-functioning spleen; HIV infection; chronic renal failure and nephrotic syndrome; organ transplant patients; CSF leak or cochlear implant; previous episode of confirmed invasive pneumococcal disease; liver cirrhosis; Down’s Syndrome
Older adults:
All people over the age of 65
Coverage figures
At-risk groups: 9.00%1 (2016)
Older adults: 11.00%2 (2017)
Vaccination advisory body/committee
National Vaccines Committee (Ponencia de Registro y Programa de Vacunaciones)
Notes:
1 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 1016 people aged 50 years and over.
2 Figure taken from Ipsos Healthcare survey based on interviews with 464 people aged 65 years and over.
Sources:
Children
WHO: https://immunizationdata.who.int/pages/coverage/pcv.html?CODE=ESP&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=68
At-risk groups
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=68
Older adults
ECDC vaccine scheduler: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/Scheduler/ByDisease?SelectedDiseaseId=25&SelectedCountryIdByDisease=68
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