General practitioner in Carpentras (Vaucluse), Doctor Sébastien DNOT sighs on the phone. Its region, La Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, is the ugly duckling of hexagonal France with regard to vaccination. Whether against measles and meningococci in babies, Papillomavirus infections in teensor the flu or the DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and polio) recall) in the elderly, the last vaccine covers made public at the end of April by public health France are still at the tail of the peloton in the country’s regions. “We have been reporting for years. Inevitably, we regret it… ”says the practitioner.
In 2019, the geographer Emmanuel Vigneron had already calculated a “comparison of vaccination” for each intercommunality, starting from health insurance data. It turns out that the south-east of the country, in particular the PACA region and its neighboring departments, is largely below the national average. Conversely, the inhabitants of the bourgeois areas of Île-de-France, Brittany and the north of the country most often agree to reach out.
