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Data set notes

European Health for All database

Indicators: 565

Updated: 18 October 2024

Contact: Data and Digital Health Unit (DDH)

The following abbreviations are used in the indicator titles:

• SDR: age-standardized death rates (see HFA-DB user manual/Technical notes, page 13, for details)

• FTE: full-time equivalent

• PP: physical persons

• PPP$: purchasing power parities expressed in US $, an internationally comparable scale reflecting the relative domestic purchasing powers of currencies.

More information: http://www.euro.who.int/en/data-and-evidence/databases/european-health-for-all-database-hfa-db

Child and Adolescent Health

The WHO Europe Child and Adolescent Health Database (CAHD) provides a set of statistics based on indicators related to the health and well-being of children and adolescents. The statistics were collated from a variety of databases as a joint effort between WHO program divisions and collaborating centres and partners. The database was constructed for the purpose of supporting the Child and Adolescent Health and Development Strategy (2015), providing the relevant information for monitoring progress on child and adolescent health indicators in the 53 member states of the WHO European Region.

Indicator notes

% of infants vaccinated against diphtheria
Indicator code: E280101.T

% of infants reaching their first birthday in the given calendar year who have been fully vaccinated against diphtheria (3 doses of DPT or DT). Data are reported annually to, and available from, the CD unit at WHO/EURO.

Country/Area notes

Albania

Ministry of Health.

Belgium

Source: VGZ + IHE. Cluster studies.
New source: \Couvertures vaccinales en Communauté Franà§aise\\ B. Swennen - PROVAC, Ecole de Santé publique, ULB, Bruxelles in \\"Diagnostics and Surveillance of Infectious Diseases\\": 12th Seminar\\" IHE-Report, D/1996/2505/17, Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology (actually the Institute for Public Health - Louis Pasteur).
The data refer to children aged 18-24 months who are living in the French Community, instead of children reaching their first birthday.."

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Public Health Institute - Department of Epidemiology.

Denmark

January 2001: There is no data for 1996 as the vaccination program was changed. DTP/tetanus is now given at 12 months. The Serum Institute calculated the percent as the vaccinations given with the share of children 15 months (before 1996) and 12 months after 1995. In 1996 all children between 12-14 months and vaccinated were just divided by share of 12-months children which given a percent larger than 100 so no data available for that year.

Estonia

Estonian Medical Statistical Bureau.

Finland

Source: National Public Health Institute

Iceland

Source: Directorate of Health, Section for Infectious Disease Control

Ireland

Source: Department of Health.

Israel

Source: Department of Epidemiology, Ministry of Health.

Italy

January 2000 Source: Ministry of Health

Lithuania

National Centre of Immunization.

Luxembourg

1996 based on a survewy carried out for the first time in 1996 on infants between 26-30 months at the time of the survey.

Netherlands

The vaccination rate is given per 1 January of the year. These figures cover babies born between one and two years before the datum date. So the vaccination rate for 1997 is the percentage of babies born in 1994 who received at least three vaccinations. The reason for the time span between year of birth and the datum data for the statistics is that immunization is sometimes done with some delay, e.g. after birth abroad. Chief Medical Officer of Public Health.

Slovakia

January 2000: Source: Institute of Public Health of SR in Bratislava. Data received from vaccination administrative control results carried
out in all districts by institutes of public health by
31 August 1998. Proportions listed in the table refer to children who reached age required by WHO definition in 1998: I.e. born in 1996 (diphteria, tetanus, pertussis poliomyelitis) or born in 1995 (measles.

Slovenia

Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana 1996.

Spain

January 2001: % of infants who have received 3 doses by 12 months of age. Only doses administered in official vaccinations services. Does not include vaccines purchased in pharmacies.
Source: Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Direccià³n General de Salud Pàºblica

Sweden

Source: Swedish Institutes for Infectious Disease Control.