Related Experiment Videos
[Evaluation of program coverage of the hepatitis B vaccination in a school population. Navarra 1992-1993]
S Carrillo Llorente1, C Moreno Iribas, E Ardanaz Aicua
1Instituto de Salud Pública, Pamplona.
Objective:
To evaluate the coverage of the programme of control and coverage of Hepatitis B among children doing their 7th year of EGB (basic) in Navarra.
Design:
Descriptive study.
Setting:
School centres in Navarra.
Participants:
7th-year EGB students in the 1992-3 school year.
Intervention:
Vaccination of the susceptible population with three doses of anti-HB vaccine on the 0-1-6 months pattern.
Measurements And Main Results:
Nominal data of children vaccinated were obtained from 171 schools out of a total of 185 (92.43%). For the rest of the centres, it is known only that vaccinations took place within the School Health Programme. The susceptible population was 6,955 children, of whom 97.8% received the first dose, 97% the second and 95.6% the third. The most common cause of non-vaccination in these children was lack of parental authorization, which reached 1.8%.
Conclusions:
A School Health programme, which is well-established and closely linked to the Primary Care network, together with a broad diffusion of information about the adolescent Vaccination Programme were key to its widespread introduction and the excellent coverage attained.