Vacinas em saúde pública

Abstract

This article is published in Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which allows use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, without restrictions, as long as the original work is correctly cited. Vaccines are one of the major triumphs of public health. What may sound like simple common sense has been reiterated in various articles in this Supplement of CSP. At this special moment of mobilization in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is placing high expectations on the development of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, with many groups working tirelessly to shorten the typically long time in the clinical trial phases for vaccines 1. Vaccines' effects involve both the vaccinated individual and herd immunity as their externality. Vaccines' effectiveness as a tool for prevention thus depends on a complex range of factors, from the individual to the collective. The challenges for their success are thus technological, ethical, psychological, and sociocultural. This Supplement of CSP aims to promote a dialogue between the various fields and sectors of society working with vaccines, through a combination of articles, essays, perspectives, and interviews. The edition revisited the history of vaccinology in Brazil and the world, its successes and failures, and in this context offers a view towards the future. Such a future depends on the technological progress for a fourth generation, an understanding of the role of new communications media in health, and knowledge of the local and specific contexts of each immunobiological product. Despite the vast base of scientific evidence backing immunization programs, some dissonant voices have challenged the idea that vaccination has played a key role in the control of diseases 2 , and requires extra effort to expand the visibility of the public health strides resulting from vaccination. While the regular editions of CSP were already publishing articles on vaccines and immunization programs, the Editors thought it was timely to have a Supplement dedicated to the theme, concentrating induced production of papers via the Editors' invitation to collaborators with expertise in academic research and health services. This Supplement thus intends to communicate not only with the "academic community", but also with professionals working in various areas related to vaccination. The articles' topics and authors represent the best feasible approach to this mix. We believe the Supplement convenes a group of collaborators that represents excellence in work with vaccines in public health. Featured in the edition is an interview with Dr. Reinaldo de Menezes Martins (1936-2019) 3 , who left us a valuable contribution through his decades of dedication to vaccines in public health.

eVACINAS: protótipo de um sistema de vacinação centrado no usuário

“…Com a pandemia de COVID-19, diversos trabalhos sobre o tema foram desenvolvidos na área de saúde, visando o controle e o acesso as informações vacinais, no Brasil e no mundo (Camacho andCodeço, 2020) Guimaraes (2021). Contudo, o foco deste trabalho está em pesquisas anteriormente realizadas que buscaram integrar aspectos do sistema SI-PNI com questões de desenvolvimento centrado há conflito de escolha, onde abre-se mão de algum bem ou serviço em prol de outro (Significados, 2019).…”