Program duration: 01/09/2011 - 31/08/2014

Promotion of Immunization for Health Professionals in Europe- HProImmune

European Commission: Public Health Program 2008 – 2013   

Prolepsis was coordinating a 3-year European project, which started on September 1, 2011. HProImmune was co-funded by the DG SANCO Public Health Program 2008 – 2013 with the kind support of the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention, KEELPNO.
Its general objective was to promote vaccination coverage of health care workers in different health care settings by developing a tailored immunization toolkit.

More specifically, HProImmune aimed to:

  • Increase awareness about the most important vaccine preventable diseases which pose a particular risk to EU health care workers.
  • Increase awareness about immunizations among health care workers through a database comprising specific information about vaccination from across the EU.
  • Provide knowledge and new data about vaccination behaviors and barriers among health care workers.
  • Widely disseminate information on best practices for promoting health care workers’ immunization in different health care settings.
  • Provide knowledge on how to communicate and promote immunizations among health care workers by piloting a tailor-made immunization toolkit.
  • Increase awareness and promote health care workers’ immunizations through a widely disseminated and pilot tested immunization promotion toolkit for health care workers. The toolkit will include recommendation, communication guidelines, tools and fact sheets.

With the kind support of:

        

Contact information 

Afroditi Veloudaki, PhD Candidate, Project coordinator: a.veloudaki@prolepsis.gr
Pania Karnaki, MA, Researcher: p.karnaki@prolepsis.gr

Services: Preventive Medicine

Project partners

The HProImmune consortium comprises of 10 associates partners from 7 countries and 2 collaborating partners from 2 countries.

Main Partner:

Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, Prolepsis Greece

Associated Partners:

Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca- Romania 
Instytut Medycyny information (The Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine)-Poland 
Viesoji istaiga MTVC-Lithuania 
Instituto Superiore di Sanita-Italy 
Romtens Foundation-Romania 
Cyprus University of Technology-Cyprus 
Technische Universitaet Dresden-Germany 
Hellenic Nurses Association-Greece 
Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Preventions-Greece

Collaborating Partners:

Occupational Health (OCH) WHO/EURO Centre for Environment and Health-Germany 
Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infectious Diseases, UK 

Relative links
http://www.hproimmune.eu/