Vaccine
Volume 30, Issue 6 pp. 983-1234 (1 February 2012)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0264410X

Regular Papers
Influenza vaccination coverage one year after the A(H1N1) influenza pandemic, France, 2010–2011
Pages 995-997
Jean-Paul Guthmann, Laure Fonteneau, Isabelle Bonmarin, Daniel Lévy-Bru

Abstract
We report influenza vaccination coverage in target groups for the 2010–2011 influenza season, one year after the A(H1N1) pandemic. Data were collected through a one-stage cross-sectional national random telephone survey conducted in January 2011 among a sample of the population of mainland France connected to a land telephone line. Influenza vaccination coverage was below 75%, ranging from 28% for health professionals to 71% in the “65+” group with an underlying condition. Coverage was higher in the “65+” compared to the “<65” with an underlying condition. It was not significantly lower compared to the previous season. Our results do not suggest that the controversies related to the pandemic vaccination campaign of 2009–2010 have had a negative impact on subsequent seasonal influenza vaccination coverage.