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Only one-third of students are vaccinated for influenza Israel today

2019-12-11T07:29:02.301Z


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Only half of students are vaccinated against papilloma • Ministry of Health: Southern District has a large shortage of nurses and considerable difficulty in staffing jobs

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The Ministry of Health offers children in grades three and four to vaccinate against flu in schools, but parents' response to vaccination is low and few students are vaccinated. This past school year saw a 5-10% drop in the rate of children vaccinated for influenza. In the second grade, 45% of the students were vaccinated (compared with 55% two years ago), in the third grade they dropped to only 36% and in the fourth grade we received less than a third of the students - 30.5%

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This emerges from a report by the Ministry of Health summarizing the health services provided to students in schools by student health nurses.

The Ministry of Health emphasizes that the vaccine was offered to more than 90% of the students, but as mentioned, between half and two-thirds of the students were not vaccinated. "The reasons for not giving the vaccine are mainly refusal of parents. It is important to continue the informational activities for the academic year of 1998," the report points out.

In the past year, probably due to the measles outbreak, the national vaccination rate for first-grade students reached 97.8%, a record five years.

The most popular vaccine (other than the flu) is the papilloma virus vaccine, which causes cervical cancer in girls and mumps in boys. Only 58.8% of eighth-grade students were vaccinated in one dose (the vaccine was given in two doses with a half-year interval between them). This is an increase compared to the previous two years where 52.1% and 54.7% of the students were vaccinated.

The vaccine is objectionable in religious communities because it protects against sexually transmitted virus. In 21% of cases the parents refused to give the vaccine, and in 18% of the schools themselves refused the vaccination.

For example, in the Jerusalem area, the rate of vaccinations is only 21%, about a third of the national rate. In Jerusalem, 67.4% of students are not vaccinated due to the school's refusal to give the vaccine.

Student health services include vaccines, vision tests, hearing, growth and health education. Despite long-standing criticism, the service provided by the Ministry of Health nurses was largely privatized and provided by nurses employed by Natalie in the Haifa, Jerusalem and Netanya areas, by nurses employed by Femi in Central and Tel Aviv. A few years ago, the service was returned to the Ministry of Health nurses in Ashkelon and in the southern and northern regions, partly because of a severe manpower shortage in these areas.

However, the results in these areas are relatively low compared to areas where service is provided by private companies. The rate of tetanus diphtheria and polio vaccine coverage in eighth grade, and a second dose of vaccine (only 1.8% of students in the South are vaccinated with two doses in this vaccine), survey tests for growth assessment in grades 1 and 7 in Southern District, are low compared to national coverage. In Ashkelon, the eighth grade vision test and seventh grade growth assessment are low compared to national coverage, and only 18% of third-grade students in the Ashkelon governor have been vaccinated for influenza, half of the rate in the entire country.

The Health Ministry notes that the Southern District has a large shortage of nurses and a considerable difficulty in staffing jobs. Moria Ashkenazi, chair of the Public Health Nurses Division of the Nurses' Federation: "Public health nurses are the first pillar to prevent disease outbreaks and prevent preventive medicine. The measles outbreak was prevented by public health nurses. They were called to the mission and worked 12 hours a day, including on holiday evenings and holidays, and thanks to that we came to the conclusion that the outbreak in Israel was stopped. Three years ago there were 1227 public health nurses and dairy drops. The Treasury does not add standards and has brought us to the position that Ben has 900 nurses.

The lack is immense. The nurses who work in the south and in Ashkelon are diverted from a drop of milk to the school and work above and beyond while damaging the drops of milk. Treasury responsible for harming infants, toddlers and school students who are our future generation "Dr. Michal Stein, director of the Infectious Disease and Infection Prevention Unit at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center and Chair of the Israeli Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases:" Vaccines are the most effective way to prevent disease, the papillomavirus Causes different types of cancer, both men and women, as well as pre-cancerous transduction and conical warts. The effectiveness of the vaccine against these diseases is excellent, and after trying hundreds of millions of doses, it is found to be very safe. The vaccine given from the current year is more extensive than it has been so far.

The decrease in influenza vaccine can be explained by the fact that the health care effort was diverted during the period corresponding to the measles vaccine. Vaccinating school children against influenza is of great importance, as in addition to preventing this disease in them, it is expected to reduce the extent of seasonal influenza outbreak in general. "

Source: israelhayom

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