Pediatrika
Volume 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 49-58

Vaccination of the immigrant and adopted child in Spain [Vacunación del niño inmigrante y adoptado en España] (Review)

Herzog R. , Prieto S.* , Panadero Y. , De León J.M. , Tercero M.J. , Fernández-Peinado A.
  • a C.S. Santa Hortensia, Servicio Madrileño de Salud, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • b Departamento Marketing, Área de Vacunas, Wyeth Farma, S.A., Madrid, Spain, Wyeth Farma, S.A., Dpto. Marketing, Área de Vacunas, Crta. N-I. Km. 23 - Desvio Algete, E- 28700 San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain
  • c Departamento Médico, Wyeth Farma, S.A., Madrid, Spain
  • d Servicio de Salud Pública Área 6, Instituto de Salud Pública, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • e Centro de Vacunaciones Núñez de Balboa, Instituto de Salud Pública, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • f Servicio de Salud Pública Área 8, Instituto de Salud Pública, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

In recent years Spain has witnessed an increase in the high flow of immigrants from less developped countries, which has created a series of problems in the sanitary attention of the country. This increase in immigration has brought a dramatic increase in children, be it via their parents itself or trought international adoptions. The aim of this article of bibliographical review is to present the problems caused by immigration with regards to the control of immunopreventive diseases of our country, by offering a series of operational measures and strategies of child selection for the vaccination of both immigrant and adopted child. All this is done in an aim to pursue a level of protection equal to the rest of the population, and also to avoid other illness in these children, avoid epidemic outbreak, and contribute to the eradication of potential illness in Spain.

Author Keywords

Adopted children Immigrant children Immunopreventive diseases Vaccinations schedules Strategies of child selection

Index Keywords

immigrant immunopathology immigration human Haemophilus influenzae type b international cooperation adoption geography Spain poliomyelitis vaccine Review epidemic Neisseria meningitidis measles vaccine epidemic meningitis natural selection meningitis vaccine pertussis hepatitis B vaccine diphtheria pertussis tetanus vaccine vaccination hepatitis B poliomyelitis influenza diphtheria measles tetanus eradication therapy
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-18844419782&partnerID=40&md5=623ce8cc8970916b0e6d980b071f4b0c
ISSN: 02113465
Original Language: Spanish