The focus: Austria wants to close health gaps!

The focus: Austria wants to close health gaps!

Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Wien, Österreich - The Austrian vaccination day 2025 will take place on January 18, 2025 in Vienna and focuses on vaccination prevention -tabling diseases such as measles, whooping cough and influenza. Due to the sunken through vaccination rates, there are worrying climbs of disease cases in Austria, which underlines the urgent need for education and vaccinations. On Monday, December 9, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., a press conference will take place at the Medical University of Vienna to illuminate this important topic. Among the speakers are Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt from the MedUni Vienna as well as Rudolf Schmitzberger and Gerhard Kobinger from the Austrian medical and pharmacist chambers who will discuss the current challenges and strategies to improve the vaccination rate, such as ots Austria reported.

The Austrian vaccination day 2024, which will take place on January 20, 2024, will deal more intensively with the teachings from Corona pandemic and discuss innovative vaccination options and digital communication strategies for education. Experts discuss current questions and challenges of vaccination medicine under the title "Vaccination! From new vaccines to artificial intelligence". Pandemic has delivered new knowledge of the immune reactions to vaccines and has shown the economic advantages of vaccinations. The need to conclude vaccine and to achieve young people digitally is in the foreground, such as MedUni Vienna

vaccinations for disease prevention

On the vaccination day, new vaccines, including a vaccin against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pneumococci, are also presented. These new vaccines are particularly important for endangered groups such as infants, older people and immunosuppressed people. In addition, reference is made to the increase in whooping cough diseases, which urgently require the public's attention. In view of climate change, the increase in tropical diseases could also be promoted in Europe.

The organizational implementation of the vaccination offers is to be improved to ensure that vaccinations remain an integral part of prevention medicine. A central concern will be to ensure the vaccination passport control with every visit to the doctor and to clarify the importance of the refresher vaccinations, especially in older patients. Vaccinations are still one of the most important measures in healthcare, which is why the political framework for promoting vaccination campaigns must be significantly revised.