Maggio 2016 - Volume XXXV - numero 5
Ricerca
1Dipartimento di Prevenzione, Azienda per l’Assistenza Sanitaria 1 Triestina
2Servizio di Epidemiologia e flussi informativi, Direzione centrale salute, integrazione sociosanitaria, politiche sociali e famiglia,
Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia
3Promozione salute e prevenzione, Direzione centrale salute, integrazione sociosanitaria, politiche sociali e famiglia,
Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia; Dipartimento di Prevenzione, Azienda per l’Assistenza Sanitaria 4 Friuli Centrale
Indirizzo per corrispondenza: riccardo.tominz@aas1.sanita.fvg.it
Key words: Vaccination, Infectious diseases, Hospitalization
Background - Despite the overall success of vaccines, demonstrated by the drastic reduction
in the incidence of diseases preventable by vaccination a few years after the vaccination
campaigns started, vaccination rates remain low, also because of a broad disinformation.
Often, those who hinder vaccination argue that infectious diseases of childhood
are no longer dangerous.
Objectives - This paper aims to provide health professionals with statistical objective information
on the risks of these diseases in the population of an Italian region.
Materials and methods - Between 1986 and 2014 the Health Information System of
Friuli Venezia Giulia allowed the identification of all hospital admissions for measles,
mumps, whooping cough, rubella, tetanus, chicken pox and haemophilus, meningococcal
and pneumococcal diseases.
Results - The number of cases detected in the 29 years of study varies from a maximum
of 3,527 for pneumococcal diseases to a minimum of 82 for tetanus, out of a population
of just over 1.2 million inhabitants, with a total of 798 deaths at discharge mostly,
but not exclusively, in elderly people.
Conclusions - These diseases then exist and can be severe enough to lead to hospitalization
and sometimes even death.
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