(Adnkronos) - "I numeri dicono che per ogni euro investito in vaccinazione si crea un ritorno di 19 euro di risparmi attesi per il Sistema sanitario nazionale, sia per quanto riguarda i ricoveri evitati sia per i costi sociali" ha spiegato Andrea Silenzi, dirigente medico Direzione generale della Programmazione sanitaria Ministero della Salute, nel suo intervento in occasione del Focus 'Prevenzione e vaccini’' nell’ambito del convegno "Health Innovation Show 2024" promosso da Mesit Fondazione medicina sociale e innovazione tecnologica a Roma in collaborazione con Altems, Ceis e Innovazione&Salute Roma3 e anche con il contributo non condizionato di Sanofi e Gilead.
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00:00What are the benefits of vaccination?
00:04We know very well that vaccination represents the most cost-effective intervention in terms of public health.
00:11From this point of view, the National Health Fund dedicates 5% to prevention,
00:17which can generate a very important value.
00:20Estimates tell us that for every euro invested in vaccination,
00:24we have a return of 19 euros for everything related to avoidant recoveries,
00:29but also social well-being,
00:31because vaccinations are precisely the paradigm of how the intervention in prevention
00:35is not only reverberated within the national health service,
00:38but in a much broader perspective throughout society.
00:41And we have seen during the pandemic what it means to block an entire society
00:46because of an infectious disease.
00:48The National Vaccine Anagraphy is a tool that has existed in Italy since 2017
00:52and that has been inserted and enhanced precisely to monitor vaccination coverage.
00:58What we are seeing in recent years, unfortunately, is a non-homogeneous data at the national level
01:05because some regions are able to give a tempestuous data.
01:08In other cases, the data presented in the anagraphs is not of quality
01:14because it cannot be compared with the data self-referred to the regions.
01:20This is a theme that has also led to the constitution of a new project
01:24within the investments of the PNRR to work together with the regions,
01:27together with local health companies,
01:29to understand what is happening in the mountains and what can harm the quality of the data.
01:34So, to improve the flow, the data collection,
01:37and this is something that can be done precisely because during the COVID we have seen
01:41that the data collection of the anti-COVID vaccination was given three times a day,
01:46so with an update of three times every 24 hours.
01:49So, it is something that can be done and all the effort is to improve the quality of the data
01:54that will certainly help us also in the phase of health programming.
01:57An important element recently was to have reached an agreement at the state and region level
02:03to be able to guarantee passive immunization to newborns starting from November 2024,
02:10since it is possible to have effective technologies against the respiratory virus,
02:15against bronchiolitis in subjects, in children,
02:18who can be more exposed precisely starting from the zero period, six months, six months of life.
02:24This is one of those examples where the vaccination calendar becomes modulable and updateable
02:30because we have new technologies at our disposal and what we need are the data.
02:34So, at the state and region level, an economic stance has been approved
02:38in the face of a data collection that will therefore allow us to go
02:42from a multidimensional evaluation to understand how to update the vaccination calendar starting next year.