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Rutkowski Maciej, Świerszcz Łukasz, Roszkowska Anna, Taracha Anna, Piecewicz-Szczęsna Halina. Measles – are we dealing with a new epidemy in Poland? Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(9):251-257. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.898169 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/4843 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 15.08.2017. Revised: 10.09.2017. Accepted: 10.09.2017. Measles – are we dealing with a new epidemy in Poland? Maciej Rutkowski, Łukasz Świerszcz, Anna Roszkowska, Anna Taracha, Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna Chair and Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research Methodology, Medical University of Lublin Corresponding author: Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna, e-mail: halpiec@wp.pl ORCID ID: Halina Piecewicz-Szczęsna http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0573-7226, halpiec@wp.pl Łukasz Świerszcz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4252-9813, swierszcz.lukasz@gmail.com Maciej Rutkowski http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0443-321X, maciejjrutkowski@gmail.com, Anna Roszkowska http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1431-3377, annros7@gmail.com Abstract Introduction: In the past few years, a group of parents avoid mandatory vaccination of children has increased. One of the effects of this action is increasing incidence of measles among unvaccinated people. The knowledge of current trends enables us to design and develop education programs for parents and to deny the distortion inherent myths about vaccinations. Objective: The objective of the research is the analysis of the current epidemiological situation of measles incidence. Material and method: Research material used for the analysis of measles incidence was taken from reports „Choroby zakaźne i zatrucia w Polsce w 2016 roku” and „Szczepienia ochronne w Polsce w 2016 roku” prepared by National Institute of Hygiene. Material was analysed by epidemiological descriptive method. Results: In 2007 measles vaccination coverage in Poland was 99,7% and in 2014 it was only 95,5%. In analysed period percentage of incidence among unvaccinated population was 54%, among vaccinated was 18% and in 28% there was no information about vaccination. Furthermore, the greatest incidence occurs among unvaccinated population of children aged 0-4 years, which one is particularly exposed to severe complications. Conclusion: General trends show that there has been a considerable decrease of measles vaccination coverage in Poland. Moreover, more than half of cases of measles incidence concern unvaccinated population. This indicates the necessity of implementation of new education programs directed to parents and need to intensify efforts to eliminate harmful myths regarding vaccination. Keywords: measles, vaccinations, epidemiology |
