Vaccination programmes : epidemiology, monitoring, evaluation / Susan Hahne, Kaatje Bollaerts and Paddy Farrington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I Background -- Chapter 1 Vaccines -- Chapter 2 How Vaccines Work: Immune Responses and Vaccine Failure -- Chapter 3 Vaccination Programmes: Aims and Strategies -- Chapter 4 Dynamics of Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases -- Chapter 5 Impact of Mass Vaccination Programmes -- Chapter 6 Vaccination: A Societal Perspective -- Part II Field Tools for Monitoring Vaccination Programmes -- Chapter 7 Monitoring Vaccine Coverage and Attitudes Towards Vaccination -- Chapter 8 Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Pathogens -- Chapter 9 Serological Surveillance -- Chapter10 Assessing and Monitoring Impact -- Chapter 11 Outbreak Investigation of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases -- Part III Vaccine Effectiveness -- Chapter 12 Vaccine Effectiveness -- Chapter 13 Estimating Vaccine Effectiveness: General Methodological Principles -- Chapter 14 Estimating Vaccine Effectiveness: Cohort and Household Contact Studies -- Chapter 15 Estimating Vaccine Effectiveness: Case-Control and Screening Studies -- Chapter 16 Waning Vaccine Effectiveness and Modes of Vaccine Action -- Part IV Risks Associated With Vaccination Programmes -- Chapter 17 Vaccine Safety: An Introduction -- Chapter 18 Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Immunisation -- Chapter 19 Estimating Vaccination Risks: General Methodological Principles -- Chapter 20 Epidemiological Study Designs for Evaluating Vaccine Safety -- Part V Benefit–risk Assessment of Vaccination Programmes -- Chapter 21 Benefit–risk Assessment of Vaccination Programmes

"Vaccination programmes are of vital importance to public health and are present in virtually every country in the world. By promoting an understanding of the diverse effects of vaccination programmes, this textbook discusses how epidemiologic methods can be used to study, in real life, their impacts, benefits and risks. The book is aimed at all those involved in the many aspects of vaccination programmes, including public health professionals and epidemiologists. Its primary target audiences are master and doctoral students in infectious disease epidemiology and public health, post-doctoral participants of field epidemiology training programmes and public health professionals working in the post-implementation epidemiological evaluation of vaccines and vaccination programmes"-- Provided by publisher.