| Document ID (ISN) | 45210 |
| CIS number |
86-137 |
| Year |
1985 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Maruna H., Rücker W. |
| Title |
Hepatitis B as an occupational disease in medical and health services |
| Original title |
Die Hepatitis-B als Berufskrankenheit im Gesundheitswesen [in German] |
| Bibliographic information |
Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt, Abteilung für Unfallverhütung und Berufskrankheitenbekämpfung, Adalbert-Stifter-Strasse 65, 1200 Wien, Austria, 1985. 21p. Illus. 13 ref. |
| Abstract |
This report analyses the results of serological tests involving 12,000 persons employed in public health services in Austria as a whole, and compares these results with data involving 1,900 employees of a large regional hospital. Hepatitis B antigens were found in the blood of 14.4% of the health service workers in Austria as a whole, and in the blood of 13.2% of the workers in the hospital (with particularly high rates in high-risk area: 50% in dialysis services and 20% in laboratory workers). There is further analysis by service, profession, age and length of employment in the field. There was a 45% reduction in the incidence of the disease after a vaccination campaign. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
Austria; morbidity; health services; hepatitis; infectious hepatitis |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
compensation of occupational diseases; report; virus diseases; vaccination; epidemiologic study; hospitals; haemodialysis centres; age |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Health care services
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Viral diseases (other than aids)
Liver diseases
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