Introduction:
Measles, mumps, and rubella are viral contagious diseases preventable by the MMR vaccine. MMR is a part of the immunization schedule of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which recommends 2 doses of the vaccine for professionals working in health care facilities.
Objectives:
To determine the vaccination coverage for measles, mumps, and rubella among active professionals of a tertiary hospital in the city of Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul; to analyze the importance of vaccinating professionals that work at health care facilities; to detect and highlight high-risk services for contagious diseases according to patient profiles - children, pregnant and puerperal women, immunocompromised individuals.
Methods:
This is a descriptive transversal study that analyzed the database of the Occupational Medicine Service of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre considering active professionals in January 2019.
Results:
We evaluated the vaccination records of 7802 active professionals of this hospital; 52% of them had taken at least 1 dose of the MMR vaccine (1 or 2 doses) and 47% had not been vaccinated. Among high-risk services, 56.4% of the professionals had had at least 1 MMR dose, while 43.4% had not been vaccinated.
Conclusions:
This study revealed that the vaccination coverage for measles, mumps, and rubella at the analyzed health care facility was still far from the ideal; however, the Occupational Medicine Service has been making efforts to gradually broaden this coverage.
The aim of this study was to analyse the data obtained from a structured questionaire, and the mercury levels found in the urine of 5 1 dental-surgeons at the SESC headquarters in Porto Alegre in 1997. The analysis of data showed that dental-surgeons had occupational exposition to mercury, whereas most of them showed levels of mercury above the reference value of normality, which is 5ug/g creatinine, despite of this, it is still lower than the maximum allowable level which is 35ug/g creatinine.
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