The role of healthcare providers in HPV vaccination programs - A meeting report

Alex Vorsters; Paolo Bonanni; Helena C Maltezou; Joanne Yarwood; Noel T Brewer; F Xavier Bosch; Sharon Hanley; Ross Cameron; Eduardo L Franco; Marc Arbyn; Nubia Muñoz; Mira Kojouharova; Jade Pattyn; Marc Baay; Emilie Karafillakis; Pierre Van Damme

doi:10.1016/j.pvr.2019.100183

The role of healthcare providers in HPV vaccination programs - A meeting report

Papillomavirus Res. 2019 Dec:8:100183. doi: 10.1016/j.pvr.2019.100183. Epub 2019 Aug 30.

Authors

Alex Vorsters¹, Paolo Bonanni², Helena C Maltezou³, Joanne Yarwood⁴, Noel T Brewer⁵, F Xavier Bosch⁶, Sharon Hanley⁷, Ross Cameron⁸, Eduardo L Franco⁹, Marc Arbyn¹⁰, Nubia Muñoz¹¹, Mira Kojouharova¹², Jade Pattyn¹³, Marc Baay¹⁴, Emilie Karafillakis¹⁵, Pierre Van Damme¹³

Affiliations

¹ Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Electronic address: alex.vorsters@uantwerpen.be.
² University of Florence, Health Sciences, Florence, Italy.
³ Department for Interventions in Healthcare Facilities, Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece.
⁴ Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, National Infection Service, Public Health England, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
⁶ Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, IDIBELL, Catalan Institute of Oncology, L'Hospitalet De Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
⁸ NHS National Health Services Scotland, Health Protection Scotland, Glasgow, UK.
⁹ Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
¹⁰ Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium.
¹¹ Emeritus Professor at the Cancer Institute of Colombia, Colombia.
¹² National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria.
¹³ Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
¹⁴ P95, Epidemiology and Pharmacovigilance, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁵ Vaccine Confidence Project, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Abstract

The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevention and Control Board convened a meeting in Bucharest, Romania (May 2018), to discuss the role of healthcare providers (HCPs) in prevention programs, with a focus on HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening. International and local experts discussed the role that HCPs can play to increase the uptake of HPV vaccine and screening. Experts recommended: 1) increasing HCP norms of getting vaccinated; 2) training providers to make effective recommendations; 3) making culturally appropriate materials available, in local languages; and 4) centralizing and coordinating education and information material, to direct both HCPs and the general public to the best material available.

Publication types

Congress
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Europe / epidemiology
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health Personnel*
Health Plan Implementation
Humans
Papillomaviridae / immunology*
Papillomavirus Infections / complications
Papillomavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Papillomavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Papillomavirus Infections / virology
Papillomavirus Vaccines / administration & dosage
Papillomavirus Vaccines / immunology*
Preventive Health Services
Public Health Surveillance
Vaccination

Substances

Papillomavirus Vaccines