EDUVAC Vaccination Competence

If ethics is a reflection between good and bad in the daily decision making, the management of care problems related to this specific population, requests to the health professional consciousness and cultural competence. This latter competence has been described as a “process in which the health care provider continuously strives to achieve the ability to effectively work within the cultural context of a client” (Campinha-Bacote, 1999). To answer this competence, and work in an ethical way, a professional should start from e real knowledge and comprehension of the person in charge, which include, health and social condition, but even specific laws, characteristics of the migrant path, culture or cultures of reference. Starting from this knowledge, the real encounter with the other, is possible only if the prejudices are aware and left aside (Gradellini, 2020).

Many childhood infection diseases are preventable by immunization. However, in many countries of migrants origin, vaccination campaigns are not so developed, and the individual data/reports are not easy to be found. A lower immunization rate in children with different nationality from UE is confirmed, and it becomes a risk factor for the overall coverage (European Observatory on Health System and policies Series, 2011).