Report on public health actions and vaccination strategies to monitor measles epidemic in Local Health Unit A in Rome, Italy

Autor: Spadea, Antonietta, Casini, Simonetta, D’Amici, Anna Maria, Di Cosimo, Emanuele, Donno, Lucia, Forleo, Fabio, Epifanio, Eugenio, Ferrero, Anna Rita, Fraboni, Lucia, Grimaldi, Orazio, Grita, Riccardo, Gozzi, Gabriella, Iometti, Fiammetta, Operamolla, Patrizia, Piras, Daniele, Proietti, Paolo, Rogai, Sergio, Scovero, Gianluca, Scipione, Fannina, Valentini, Anna, Vinci, Carmen, Ercole, Andreina, Barbato, Angelo
Přispěvatelé: Paediatricians of District IV ASL RM/A
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Italian Journal of Public Health, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2012)
Italian Journal of Public Health; Vol 9, No 1 (2012): Vaccination: assessments and values
ISSN: 1723-7815
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Popis: Background: between May 2010 and october 2011 the unit of Preventive Medicine for the developmental ages of district IV, Health unit aSL rM/a, received 136 measles case notifications from the unit of Epidemiology and Prophylaxis of Infectious diseases. Methods: in accordance with the infectious diseases monitoring protocol, we introduced a series of preventive measures, such as monitoring subjects in contact with measles-infected patients, recommend- ing the administration of two Measles Mumps and rubella (MMr) doses four weeks apart, and informing paediatricians, families and school teachers about the measles epidemic.Results: all the activities above led to an increased number of MMr doses administered and a significant improvement of measles immunization coverage among residents of the district IV health unit of rome. concerning MMr 1, in a sample cohort consisting of children ≤24 months, the immunization coverage increased from 77% on the 31/12/09 to 88% on the 31/12/11. Instead, for MMr 2, in a cohort of children ≤6 years, the same ratio improved from 51% on the 31/12/09 to 65% on the 31/12/11.Discussion: the results indicate a material increase in the immunization coverage once our public health actions and vaccination strategies had been implemented among young residents of district IV aSL rM/a...
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