Primary care providers must ensure their adult patients receive all necessary immunizations, according to E. Robert Schwartz, MD, professor and chairman, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL, USA. “We do a wonderful job in the United States of immunizing children. However, we really do fall down with respect to adult immunizations,” he said here February 16th at the Pri-Med South Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA. More than 45,000 adults die each year from preventable infectious diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, and hepatitis.
The Adult Immunization Action Plan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) aspires to increase awareness and vaccination rates among adults. “From the CDC’s perspective, they’d like us to get to a 90% immunization rate, and we’re not there, [although] we’ve done a pretty good job in the greater than 65 [years old] group.” Mass education about influenza vaccination has been particularly effective in this age group, and it has helped to decrease hospital stays and death due to influenza. But there remains room for improvement, he said.
One component of this program is the National Plan for Influenza Pandemic. According to Dr. Schwartz, this is a crisis “just waiting to happen.” New strains can emerge unpredictably, causing huge financial and economic losses.
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