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Copyright of General Medicine & Health Sciences / Medycyna Ogólna i Nauki o Zdrowiu is the property of Witold Chodzki Institute of Rural Medicine and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of General Medicine & Health Sciences / Medycyna Ogólna i Nauki o Zdrowiu is the property of Witold Chodzki Institute of Rural Medicine and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Epidemiological Review / Przegląd Epidemiologiczny is the property of National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Vaccinations are the most effective way to prevent selected infectious diseases. Is there a time and place for vaccinations in palliative medicine? The answer to this question is definitely positive. Vaccinations should be carried out on medical personnel and persons forming close contact with patients, and everybody who takes care of the patients, thus ensuring protection against illnesses and their complications in vaccinated people but also minimising the risk of transmission of infection in the patient's environment (the so-called cocoon strategy of vaccination that mainly involves vaccination against influenza and pertussis). The vaccination schedule for palliative care patients should be based on the patient's health condition; the most important seems to be influenza vaccination, which is safe and effective also in palliative care patients. Vaccination for influenza in patients requiring palliative care is effective and safe (use of an inactivated vaccine is recommended; use of vaccine containing live attenuated influenza viruses is contraindicated). Obligatory vaccinations in accordance with the national immunisation schedule program and recommended vaccinations (e.g. against influenza) must be carried out for children who are in close contact with patients. Adults caring for patients should be vaccinated against hepatitis B. Medical staff caring for patients should be vaccinated against hepatitis B (three doses, 0-1-6-month schedule), influenza (one dose every season), and pertussis (one dose every 10 years). Vaccination of personnel is advisable for ethical, epidemiological, and organisational reasons (providing reduction of sickness absence days, lower transmission of influenza viruses in the population, and better health of family contacts of patients). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of people who are afraid of vaccinations and who refuse to submit their children to them is constantly growing in Poland. Certain attempts are being made to change legal provisions regarding the obligation of preventative vaccinations. An important element of this discussion is an analysis of the current legal solutions included in judicial decisions. The aim of this paper is to present court judgements in cases regarding legal responsibility related to the obligation of preventative vaccinations issued by the Supreme Court, district courts, the Supreme Administrative Court and voivodship administrative courts. The subject of the judgments under discussion were, in particular, matters relating to the obligation to undergo mandatory vaccinations; legal sources of the obligation to undergo preventative vaccinations, included in the Announcement of the Chief Sanitary Inspector on the protective vaccine program; mandatory preventative vaccinations and the constitutional rights of citizens; administrative enforcement of the obligation to subject a child to mandatory preventative vaccinations, as interpreted by the state, and contraindications to vaccination; enforced fulfillment of the obligation to subject a child to preventative vaccination, and the legal effect of the refusal to subject a child to a pre-vaccination screening; the use of fines to enforce mandatory preventative vaccinations; administrative fines and criminal liability for failure to undergo vaccinations against infectious diseases; parental refusal to subject a child to mandatory vaccinations; civil liability for compensation; and nature and the enforcement of a parents' obligation to subject children to protective vaccination. The administrative and criminal law measures provided for in the Act on enforcement procedure in administration, including fines, to enforce the statutory obligation of vaccination may be used to achieve this goal. This has been concluded in judgements which are valid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Author Correction: Congenital toxoplasmosis among hospitalized infants in Poland in the years 2007-2021: study based on the national hospital registry The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38270-y. Correction to: I Scientific Reports i https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38270-y, published online 08 July 2023 The original version of this Article contained errors in the names of the authors Michal Rzad, Krzysztof Kanecki, Katarzyna Lewtak, Pawel Gory'nski, Piotr Tyszko, Izabela Lewandowska-Andruszuk & Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, which were incorrectly given as Rzad Michal, Kanecki Krzysztof, Lewtak Katarzyna, Gory'nski Pawel, Tyszko Piotr, Lewandowska-Andruszuk Izabela & Nitsch-Osuch Aneta. [Extracted from the article]