Influenza as a Problem of Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2022) | Viewed by 28703
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are organizing a Special Issue to bring together research presenting interdisciplinary aspects of influenza as a problem of public health in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The venue is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes articles and communications in the interdisciplinary area of environmental health sciences and public health. For detailed information on the journal, we refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.
Influenza is an acute infectious disease that occurs seasonally, but also has a pandemic potential. According to WHO estimations, each year 5–10% of the adult and 10–20% of the pediatric global population are infected by influenza viruses, and up to 600,000 deaths related to influenza can be expected. Influenza incidence is high in children, but the highest risk of serious and complicated disease is observed in seniors, pregnant women, and patients with chronic diseases. The burden of influenza is often unrecognized, while direct and indirect costs of the disease are underestimated. Although influenza vaccine is recommended for all who want to avoid the disease, vaccine coverage rates in many countries are below expected values.
This Special Issue is open to any subject area related to understanding influenza as an infectious disease which may have a spectacular impact not only on individual patients but also (or potentially mainly) on public health. The listed keywords suggest just a few of the many possible topics for papers submitted to this Issue.
Prof. Dr. Aneta Nitsch-Osuch
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- influenza
- public health
- vaccine
- epidemiology
- prevention
- costs
- treatment
- diagnosis
- complications