The hepatitis B prevention education programme in Poland
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Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Detection and Quantification of Hepatitis B Virus DNA
Published on: December 15, 2023
1Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Miodowa 15 str, Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
The main objective of the hepatitis B prevention education programme in Poland is to promote education in the school setting. The programme stems from the national policy for the prevention of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and is an element of the national Health Prevention Programme. The main aims of the programme include reducing morbidity from HBV infection by increasing community awareness, facilitating access to vaccination, establishing local lobbies to support the programme, and encouraging cooperation with vaccine producers. The education programme has been implemented in three phases, starting with a pilot programme in 1996 that was extended to half of Poland in 1997 and to the whole country in 1998. The programme is divided into five stages, consisting of meetings at central, voivodship and local levels, vaccination of children and evaluation of the programme.
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