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Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board
Barcelona, Spain, November, 15-16, 2012
How to reach healthcare workers?
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Session 1 Introduction
Chair:
Angela Dominguez, Daniel
Lavanchy
09.00 - 09.30
Session 2 Recent vaccination
coverage data of hepatitis B and other vaccine preventable diseases in
healthcare workers
Chair: Angela Dominguez,
Daniel Lavanchy
Healhtcare Workers
09.15 – 09.35
Can we know the immunization status of healthcare workers?
Results of a feasibility study in hospital trusts,England, 2008. 888
Kb (.pdf)
Lorenzo Pezzoli (Epidemiology
consultant)
09.35 – 09.55
Disparities in influenza vaccination coverage rates in health
care workers and the ways to overcome the barriers. 2.3 Mb
(.pdf)
Patricia Blank (Institute of Social and
Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland)
09.55 – 10.15
Vaccination coverage in healthcare workers in
Italy. 685 b (.pdf)
Silvio
Tafuri (Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, Aldo Moro
University of Bari, Italy)
10.15 – 10.35 Discussion
10.35 – 10.50 Coffee Break
Students
Chair: Selim Badur, Rui Tato Marinho
10.50 – 11.10
Prevalence of markers for hepatitis B virus and vaccination
compliance among medical school students in Italy. 357 Kb
(.pdf)
Andrea Trevisan (Department
of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Italy)
11.10 – 11.30
Seroprevalence of vaccine preventable and blood transmissible
viral infections. 1.6 Mb (.pdf)
Sabine
Wicker (Occupational Health Service, Hospital of
the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt)
11.30 – 11.50 Discussion
Extra session
Launch Euro Hepatitis care Index. 930 Kb (.pdf)
Tatjana Reic (ELPA- European liver patient
association)
11.50 – 13.30 Lunch
Session 3 Vaccination policies and
recommendations in healthcare workers on national and global
level
Chair: Vana Papaevangelou
Overview
of current vaccination policies and recommendations in healthcare
workers
13.30 – 13.50
In Europe. 605 Kb (.pdf)
Fortunato
Paolo D'Ancona (National Centre of Epidemiology,
Surveillance and Health Promotion, Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome,
Italy)
13.50 – 14.10
Centre of Disease Control and Prevention – CDC. 403 Mb
(.pdf)
Sarah Schillie
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) presented by David
Weber
14.10 – 14.30
PAHO’s experience preventing Hepatitis B in the healthcare
workforce in Latin America. 5.8 Mb (.pdf)
Julietta
Rodríguez-Guzmán (Pan American Health Organisation)
Example of the implementation of
these policies
14.30 – 14.50
Survey of vaccination policies in French healthcare
institutions. 250 Kb (.pdf)
Pierre Loulergue (Université
Paris Descartes, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France)
14.50 – 15.10 Discussion
Overview of current vaccination policies and recommendations in future healthcare workers (medical and nurse students)
Chair: Tatjana Reic, Pierre Van Damme
15.10 – 15.30
Immunization for vaccine-preventable diseases: why aren't we
protecting our students in US? 1.3 Mb (.pdf)
David
Weber (USA Department of Medicine, University of
North Carolina, USA)
15.30 – 15.50
EMSA – European medical student association: Overview of current
vaccination policies. 807 Kb (.pdf)
Kathleen
Janssens and Evy Vervecken (European medical student association,
Antwerp, Belgium)
15.50 – 16.10 Discussion
16.10 – 16.25 Coffee Break
Session 4 Acceptance of vaccination by
the healthcare workers
Chair: David Goldberg,
Erika Duffell
16.25 – 16.45
Ensuring the willingness to vaccinate and be vaccinated. 141
Kb (.pdf)
Baeyens, J. P
(University Luxemburg)
16.45– 17.05
Attitudes toward mandatory occupational vaccinations and
vaccination coverage against vaccine-preventable diseases of health care
workers in primary health care centers in Greece. 1.6 Mb
(.pdf)
Helena Maltezou (Department
for Interventions in Health-Care Facilities, Hellenic Center for Disease
Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece)
17.05 – 17.25
Knowledge, attitudes and vaccination coverage of healthcare
workers regarding occupational vaccinations in France. 422 Kb
(.pdf)
Pierre Loulergue
(Université Paris Descartes, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris,
France)
17.25 – 17.45 Discussion
17.25 – 17.45 End of the day
Friday, November 16, 2012
Session 5 Best practices to
increasing vaccination rates among healthcare workers
Chair:
Johannes Hallauer, Hans
Blystad
09.00 – 09.15
WHO global hepatitis programme
Stefan
Wiktor (WHO)
09.15 – 09.35
European project for the promotion of Immunization for health
professionals. 276 Kb (.pdf)
Carmen
Montaño (EPIET fellow ECDC / National Centre of
Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanità,
Rome, Italy)
09.35 – 09.55
Strategies to increase influenza vaccine uptake among health
care workers in Greece. 1.2 Mb (.pdf)
Helena Maltezou
(Department for Interventions in Health-Care Facilities, Hellenic Center for
Disease Control and Prevention, Athens, Greece)
09.55 – 10.15
Influenza vaccination: how to reach health care
workers. 1.7 Mb (.pdf)
Anna
Llupia (Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology Unit, Hospital Clinic of
Barcelona, Spain)
Extra session
10.15 – 10.35
Towards a network of influenza stakeholders in Turkey. 1.4
Mb (.pdf)
Selim Badur
10.35 – 10.55 Discussion
10.55 – 11.20 Coffee break
11.20 – 11.40
Mandatory influenza vaccination of healthcare workers: A
successful implementation by a community healthcare system. 1.4 Mb
(.pdf)
Sheila Huynh (Infection
Preventionist, Medical Center of The Rockies Rocky, Loveland, USA)
11.40– 12.00
Obligatory occupational health check increases vaccination rates
among medical students. 447 Kb (.pdf)
Klaus
Schmid (Institute and Outpatient Clinic of Occupational, Social and
Environmental Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen,
Germany)
12.00 – 12.20 Discussion
Session 6
Conclusions
Chair: Francoise
Roudot-Thoraval, Helene Norder
12.45 – 13.30
Presentation of the VHPB meeting conclusions 87
Kb(.pdf)
David FitzSimons
13.30 Close of the meeting