Nursing as a player in tackling vaccine hesitancy and refusal - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 03-08-2024;77:e77suppl101
Since the 1970s, the Brazilian Ministry of Health established the Brazilian National Immunization Program (PNI – Programa Nacional de Imunização), which preceded the Brazilian Health System and which was incorporated and strengthened due to the decentralized model to municipalities, but under single command at central level. Its objective was and still is to coordinate vaccination actions to control, eradicate and eliminate vaccinepreventable diseases.
In the 50 years of the program’s existence, in addition to offering free coverage to all Brazilians, PNI actions have usually been increased over time, diversifying the variety of immunobiological agents implemented in routine vaccination calendars or offered as special immunobiological agents as well as the number of vaccines offered to the population, thus becoming one of the largest public vaccination programs in the world.
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Since the 1970s, the Brazilian Ministry of Health established the Brazilian National Immunization Program (PNI - Programa Nacional de Imunização), which preceded the Brazilian Health System and which was incorporated and strengthened due to the decentralized model to municipalities, but under single command at central level. Its objective was and still is to coordinate vaccination actions to control, eradicate and eliminate vaccinepreventable diseases.
In the 50 years of the program’s existence, in addition to offering free coverage to all Brazilians, PNI actions have usually been increased over time, diversifying the variety of immunobiological agents implemented in routine vaccination calendars or offered as special immunobiological agents as well as the number of vaccines offered to the population, thus becoming one of the largest public vaccination programs in the world.
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