LUDWIGSBURG - Information and education about vaccination and improving vaccination coverage rates is an important topic, especially for young people. For this reason, the health department of the Ludwigsburg district office has launched a poster competition entitled #kleiner pix, mega Schutz;) to educate young people about the importance of vaccination. The awards ceremony for the poster competition took place on March 13 in the auditorium of the Carl Schaefer School.
In the vaccination project, the pupils had the opportunity to design posters on the topics of general vaccinations, travel vaccinations, cancer prevention through vaccination, childhood diseases in young adults and ticks and vaccinations. Five students from the Carl Schaefer School's media classes were recognized for their outstanding poster designs at the award ceremony on March 13. A total of 43 pupils from the Carl Schaefer School took part in the Health Department's poster competition and submitted their creative designs. Andrea Theile-Stadelmann, Headmistress of the Carl Schaefer School, supported the Health Department's project and said: "The topic of vaccination is very important to us - as a school, we have a duty of care towards our pupils."
The award ceremony also included an information event with experts and 200 pupils from the Carl Schaefer School. In addition to the presentations "Vaccination benefits - vaccination protects" (Dr. Uschi Traub, Head of Health Promotion, Department of Health), "Vaccination protection in your luggage" (Dr. Ulrike Rangwich-Fellendorf, Head of Children's, Youth and Healthcare Medical Tasks, Socio-Medical Assistance, Department of Health), "Cancer prevention through vaccination" (Ulrika Gebhardt, Managing Director of the Baden-Württemberg Cancer Association e.V.), "Children's diseases - the underestimated danger for young adults" (Dr. Arnold Schwarz, specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine) and "Ticks without horror" (Dr. Rainer Oehme, laboratory manager, Baden-Württemberg State Health Office).
The project is already running at its third location in the district. The aim is to inform and educate young people in schools about vaccination, to improve vaccination rates among young people and to collect vaccination data from young people. The young people also had the opportunity to have their vaccination records checked.
