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Some senior family physicians in Israel against the effort to vaccinate the entire population of elderly Israelis from pneumonia as a waste of resources. Senior officials in Israel Association of Family Physicians, last week announced an unusual criticism of the broad transition to vaccinate the entire population of Israel over 65 years of pneumonia in addition to vaccination against seasonal influenza. The criticism is against the recently published article analyzes studies involving over 100,000 individuals and argue pneumonia vaccination ineffective. Doctors against pneumonia vaccination plan said management organizations to support Israel's health, which, judging by family physicians in meeting these common goals of vaccination should be abandoned. In an article published in January in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, 22 studies were surveyed about the effectiveness of vaccination against pneumonia. Swiss study, for example, is determined there is little evidence that this vaccine provides protection against pneumonia. Mortality among patients who were vaccinated was similar to those who are. It showed that only 4 percent of chronically ill avoid pneumonia by vaccination. The data, however, led to a change in guidelines in the United States, Europe and Israel, where the goal is that all people over 65 receive a one-time pneumonia vaccination for chronic patients should be vaccinated every five years. Critics policy in Israel Association of Family Physicians have expressed disapproval in particular the activities of doctors measured the extent to which they meet the goals of vaccination with patients at a reduced price. Amnon Lahad, who is a cheap strattera senior doctor with the association and chief of family medicine at the Hebrew University Medical School, said that "recently it was concluded that the pneumonia vaccine does not provide full protection, or close to full protection, and also vaccination is not is effective in the long run. It is true that the world is still recommended, but when the facts are studied, the vaccine has a successful public relations than the vaccine itself. I would not say never vaccinate, but there is no reason for making this vaccination flagship of preventive medicine in Israel. "

Head of the Israel Association of Family Physicians, Dr. Shomo Vinker, said SCR "seek to aggressively and rapidly increase the number of people vaccinated against pneumonia. True, no studies that indicate the risks associated with this vaccine, but each vaccine has side effects, and we do not want to expose people to the vaccine if it is not effective for them. " Vinker added that despite the new data, the Association does not consider the recommendation that the target populations, not to be vaccinated. Some high-ranking source in the Association of Family Physicians also criticized the tendency of young people here to look for pneumonia vaccinations to avoid complications from swine flu. There are doctors that are easy to write such prescriptions for young people, said a source, although it has not proved to be effective against swine flu. 50-year-old man with a history of other health problems died yesterday swine flu, 24 reported swine flu death in the country. Put HMO provides free vaccination pneumonia members, even if they are in certain high-risk target groups, based on the assumption that only this group will request the vaccine. Chairman of the Israeli Association pulmonologist said that there is an article in support of and against vaccinations, but doctors in Israel, should take into account the position of the Ministry of Health, which called for the continuation of vaccination against pneumonia among target populations. "We can not judge yourself and decide to vaccinate according to the articles, because then each physician will act in their own opinion and would not be complete chaos. In this case, the directives of the Ministry of Health must follow, "he said. In 2008, the study of more than 100 000 people found the pneumonia vaccine is effective, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. actually expanded its recommendation about who should receive vaccine to include all smokers of 19 to 64 years. Ministry of Health said that he knew about the new study, which was accompanied by editorial in the same journal said the study results are ambiguous, most studies show that the vaccine was effective and that the current policy regarding vaccines should not be changed. Put HMO, which has made intensive efforts to ensure vaccination against pneumonia in the past two years have seen 12. 5-percent reduction in the number of days spent in hospital, including almost 40 000 patients vaccinated. .