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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

01.01.2012 | Regular Article

Effectiveness assessment of vaccination policy against measles epidemic in Japan using an age–time two-dimensional mathematical model

verfasst von: Yusuke Maitani, Hirofumi Ishikawa

Erschienen in: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine | Ausgabe 1/2012

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Abstract

Objectives

In 2007, measles prevailed among the youth and young adult population in Japan, creating in a serious social problem. Among the developed countries, Japan has a relatively high incidence of measles. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of improvements in the vaccination policy against measles through simulations.

Methods

We developed an age–time two-dimensional model for the transmission of measles to reflect an age structure, enabling contact rate to be selected by age. Introduction of the maternal immunity class into the model allowed natural infection and vaccination to be discriminated along the course of an infant’s mother acquiring the immunity, thereby resulting in an improved accuracy of the simulations in infants. Several vaccination scenarios were attempted in order to assess the influence of various vaccination policies on the prevention of a measles epidemic.

Results

The results of this quantitative study indicated that suppression of a measles outbreak requires the maintenance of high vaccine coverage and that a decline in vaccine coverage may result in a measles epidemic.

Conclusions

The present standard immunization program for measles will maintain an acceptable level of immunity and is therefore associated with a low risk of an epidemic after discontinuation of the third and fourth stages as scheduled—as long as at least 90% vaccine coverage of the first and second is maintained. The simulation results show that discontinuation of the third and fourth stages of vaccination as scheduled should be accompanied by endeavors to maintain appropriate high vaccine coverage of the first and second stages.

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Titel: Effectiveness assessment of vaccination policy against measles epidemic in Japan using an age–time two-dimensional mathematical model
verfasst von: Yusuke Maitani
Hirofumi Ishikawa
Publikationsdatum: 01.01.2012
Verlag: Springer Japan
Erschienen in: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine / Ausgabe 1/2012
Print ISSN: 1342-078X
Elektronische ISSN: 1347-4715
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12199-011-0217-y