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In Viet Nam, an inactivated, mouse brain-derived vaccine for Japanese encephalitis (JE) has been given exclusively to ≤5 years old children in 3 paediatric doses since 1997. However, JE incidence remained high, especially among children aged 5-9 years. We conducted a model JE immunization programme to assess the feasibility and impact of JE vaccine administered to 1-9 year(s) children in 3 standard-dose regimen: paediatric doses for children aged <3 years and adult doses for those aged ≥3 years. Of the targeted children, 96.2% were immunized with ≥2 doses of the vaccine. Compared to the national immunization programme, JE incidence rate declined sharply in districts with the model programme (11.32 to 0.87 per 100,000 in pre- versus post-vaccination period). The rate of reduction was most significant in the 5-9 years age-group. We recommend a policy change to include 5-9 years old children in the catch-up immunization campaign and administer a 4th dose to those aged 5-9 years, who had received 3 doses of the vaccine during the first 2-3 years of life.
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Objective To explore the application effect of implementing the accountability nursing mode in pediatric surgical ward.Methods On the basis of the transformation of nursing concept and the improving of understanding of High Quality Nursing Service Demonstration Project activities,strengthening basic nursing,establishing two-level nurse management framework,implementing the accountability nursing mode.The satisfaction degree of children's parents before and after the implementation was compared.Results The satisfaction degree of children's parents after the implementation of accountability nursing mode significantly improved.Conclusions After implementing accountability nursing mode in pediatric surgical ward,the satisfaction degree of children's parents improved,the harmonious development of nurse-patient relationship was promoted,the professional identity of nursing personnel was enhanced,and guaranteed the continuous improvement of quality of care.
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Objective To apply the theory of key contact point to the high-quality nursing care demonstration project in order to raise the satisfaction rate of hospitalized patients. Methods To investigate the key contact point from 142 hospitalized patients and 124 their family members by means of questionnaire, then to analyze the related items and find out the key contact point that affects the satisfaction rate, finally take proper nursing strategy. Results The whole diathesis of nursing staff was improved obviously, the awareness of service enhanced and nursing quality improved continuously the satisfaction rate of the hospitalized patients also increased. Conclusions Applying the theory of key contact point to the high-quality nursing care demonstration project can improve the satisfaction rate of hospitalized patients.
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Since the implementation of the national medical insurance service in 1979, it has become necessary to reconsider medical services from the geographical point of view. As more medical professionals have been concentrated in the metropolitan and urban areas, publicly hired medical practitioners have been appointed to less populated regions (e.g., farms and fisheries) and public medical service has been reinforced. During the past 10 years, the government and the ruling parties have been dragged around by strikes and collective actions of medical organizations, who have been rather dissatisfied with the new policy, namely, the separation of dispensary from medical practice. In an attempt to hold such efforts into check, the government, who has lost its "pride as a leftist," saw the needs to implement the public medical service. Consequently, new regulations were focused on the expansion of both the quantity and shares in the medical service market of the public medical service, which can be directly controlled. The government has either misunderstood the needs for urban public medical service or diverted its underlying principles. Despite some studies that reported the financial loss of urban public medical service as unavoidable, the government established seven exemplary public medical services in November 2005. The inefficiencies of such medical service were first brought to the public attention by the municipal congress of Cheonan City. Moreover, there have been some cases of distorted medical practices in the Seoul area, caused by efforts to record amplified hours of services. Owing to the financial loss and lack of effectiveness of the public medical service, such wrongful actions have been well expected. The government should first institute the underlying concepts of public medical service. The current inefficient public medical service should be scrapped, if the purpose of such service is a "public service," per se. If the public medical service only fills blanks left out by private medical service, the current public institutions have to carry out their responsibilities. The needs for current public medical service should be addressed if the quality and details of such service is to remain inferior to private medical service and keeps wasting tax.