Specific immunization issues in the occupational health setting
Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Stopford Building, Manchester University Medical School, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
This article looks at the components of an effective occupational health vaccination programme and also reviews the legal basis for them. It addresses the issue of vaccine licensing including pre-clinical, clinical and post-licensing studies. It explores screening for vaccine preventable diseases in the occupational health setting and then addresses particular issues around hepatitis B, chicken pox, tuberculosis, measles, rubella, diphtheria, polio, mumps and hepatitis A.
Keywords Occupational health vaccine programmes; screening for vaccine preventable infections (hepatitis B, chicken pox, influenza, Neisseria meningitidis C, tetanus, diphtheria, polio, mumps and hepatitis A); vaccine licensing
Correspondence to: David N. Baxter, Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Stopford Building, Manchester University Medical School, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. e-mail: baxter{at}nhs.net