Filippo de Nicolellis
Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Title: The communication about and the availability towards vaccinal campaigns against influenza in primary health care in north east Italy: outcomes and considerations four years later
Biography
Biography: Filippo de Nicolellis
Abstract
You will be introduced to a four-year project about developing e-communication and other tools in a rural area of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The Medical Association “CROCE MEDICA” is promoting the use of posters in family doctor’s offices as well as of e-mails to communicate the patients dates and procedures for the vaccination against influenza. Furthermore, the association e-mails, its registered doctors, a dispatch about influenza as well as a request for information about the illness seasonal evolution in the various areas of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Doctors have shown resistance in developing e-communication with their patients; moreover, there are still problems with patients’ acceptance of vaccination due to the spread all around Italy of theory against any forms of vaccine. However, there has been an increase in the percentage of vaccinated people in the investigated area in the last years. I believe all efforts aiming at improving the communication with patients and explaining how to obtain the vaccination against influenza are useful in any case