Status quo and countermeasures of prevention and treatment of hepatitis B in rural area of Zhangjiakou / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the status quo of the prevention and treatment of hepatitis B in rural area ,to analyze the shortages in prevention and treatment strategy ,to explore the corresponding prevention countermeasures and to provide the scientif‐ic basis .Methods The inhabitants were randomly sampled from 6 natural villages in the rural area of Zhangjiakou as the research subjects .The venous blood HBsAg and HBsAb were detected .The respondents were divided into 2 groups according to the distance of residence place from cities and towns .The distribution differences of HBsAg and HBsAb were compared among different age groups for analyzing the influence of age and public health conditions on the HBV control effects .Results The HBsAg positive rate averaged 5 .92% and the HbsAb positive rate averaged 33 .73% ,with the age increase ,the HBsAg positive rate showed the increas‐ing trend and the anti‐HBsAb showed the decreasing trend ;the anti‐HBsAb positive rate in the inhabitants aged under 15 years near town was higher than those far from town .Conclusion It is needed to increase the input and support intensity to the rural areas in the aspects of finance and manpower ,improve the public health conditions of the rural area with the planned immunity as the main thing ,enlarge the hepatitis B vaccine inoculation range ,strengthen the publicity of HBV harm ,prevention and treatment knowledge , increase the neonatal hepatitis B vaccine inoculation rate and the 24 h timely inoculation rate of hepatitis B vaccine ,accomplish the immune blocking in pregnant women with HBsAg positive ,and preventing the HBV communication during feeding process in in‐fants .