Influenza vaccination as a quality of life promoting strategy

• Autor(a) principal: Dip,Renata Maciulis
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Cabrera,Marcos Aparecido Sarria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/341
• topic: Influenza vaccines, adverse effects, aged, quality of life.

<p>Influenza has a great impact on elderly morbidity and mortality rates. Vaccination is the most effective measure to prevent these diseases complications. It is effective preventing hospital admission for influenza and pneumonia and all-cause mortality. Moreover, it is associated with reductions in the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular disease. Although ageing has consequences that diminish vaccine effectiveness, the great benefits of vaccination occur in this population. Even though, there are some groups with characteristics associated with lower rates of vaccination. The leading reasons given worldwide for not vaccinating are: fear of adverse effects, lack of credibility in the vaccine and beliefs that it is unnecessary. However, the vaccine causes few adverse effects. Nevertheless non vaccinated elderly say they would have been vaccinated if a doctor had proposed this to them, the vaccine isn't part of medical routine. The whole health team should be more active to elucidate the real benefits of vaccination. Then, more elderly people would beneficiate from this and achieve a better quality of life.</p>