Factors Influencing Infant and Adolescent Vaccine Uptake in Flanders, Belgium

This chapter focuses on the determinants of immunization programme outcomes in Flanders (Belgium), such as vaccine initiation and uptake, completion of the vaccination schedule and compliance to official validity criteria. 

Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data

Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases usually involves describing the flow of individuals between mutually exclusive infection states.

Our fourth SIMID course will take place on 23-27 September, 2013.

Topics:

• Estimating infectious disease parameters for models
• Mathematical models for infecious diseases
• Health economic evaluations

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Programe 2012

Our workshop covers topics such as immunology, social contact data, seasonal influenza modeling, transmission models for bacteria and its relation to resistance, ethics of vaccination policy and the economic evaluation of vaccination programs. The workshop is organized as invited talks and contributed poster sessions.