Strategies and actions of multi-purpose health communication on vaccine preventable infectious diseases in order to increase vaccination coverage in the population: The ESCULAPIO project

The paper summarizes the results achieved inside the activities of the ESCULAPIO Project, funded by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CCM) of the Italian Ministry of Health, for the program 2013, whose main aims were: i. to increase awareness on vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and vaccinations in different target populations; ii. to spread the culture of prevention; iii. to develop information/training interventions on VPID; iv. to contrast the spread of misinformation about vaccines through the Internet and social networks.