This guide introduces a five-step, stakeholder-based approach to adapting health communication materials. It describes how countries can take any health communication material and create adapted products which reflect national or local realities, needs and assets without losing the scientific correctness, core concepts and messages of the original version.
This study provides insights for national public health authorities into the factors behind the spread of vaccine misinformation online and the options and capacities needed for responding to it.
The ECDC Social Marketing guide provides public health programme managers and practitioners with a summary of social marketing concepts and approaches.
The European Region was declared polio-free in 2002. Since then, renewed circulation of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) and outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) has been observed globally.
The third external evaluation of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) was initiated in 2018, in line with the requirements of the Centre’s Founding Regulation. The final report is now published together with the conclusions and recommendations of the Management Board.
The Director’s Annual report provides an overview of the Centre’s accomplishments for 2016 and a summary of the Centre’s financial and administrative operations.