Development of a tool to help in decision making in the correct vaccination protection of the population

Abstract

Introduction. The first vaccination calendar in Spain dates to 1975, with the last three being in 2018, 2021 and 2022.
Focusing on the Community of Madrid (CAM), the last systematic calendar in force is that of 2020. Vaccination
coverage in the CAM, although it is high, it can be improved, especially in the adult stage, which entails a high risk
of regrowth and increased costs. This, added to the constant changes of calendars, makes it difficult to carry out a
correct vaccination by the health professional.

Objective. The main objective of the study is to create a tool that allows us to easily recognize if a person is correctly
vaccinated by counting the number of vaccines administered according to age.

Methodology. Four bibliographic searches were carried out in databases including only articles from less than 5 years
ago and that exclusively spoke of CAM, without finding any valid results. For this reason, the latest CAM calendars
were used.

Conclusions. This tool has been developed covering all ages and considering risk factors. As a limitation of the study,
only the recommendations of the CAM have been considered, being useful only in this autonomous community. In
addition, the use of this tool should be validated to determine its reliability.