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Learning Objectives for this Presentation:
Participants will have: 1) increased knowledge of Washington State's perinatal hepatitis B program, 2) familiarity with state objectives and progress towards their achievement. 3) ability to discuss strategies and problem solving for objectives.
Background:
The Washington State Program was initiated in 1991 with funding from the Centers for Disease Control on Prevention (CDC).
Funding is distributed to local health jurisdictions (LHJ's) through consolidated contracts to administer program at the local level.
The State Program supplies pediatric hepatitis B vaccine for children as well as laboratory testing, information, and technical assistance.
Methods:
State program staff collects local data for a perinatal hepatitis B surveillance database. This system generates data for:
Annual summary reports for each LHJ.
Service due reports for LHJ's to aid in case management of HBsAg-positive mothers, their infants and contacts.
Annual report and surveys to CDC.
Partnership with the State Board of Health resulted in State statute revision to require laboratories to report chronic hepatitis B cases (initial diagnosis and previously unreported prevalent cases) to LHJ's. Testing is underway for a web-based perinatal hepatitis B case managment system to track data of HBsAg-positive mothers, their infants, and contacts. This data will be linked to our statewide CHILD Profile Immunization Registry.
Results:
LHJ's receive county specific data including summary reports of comparative data and expected birth data.
Conclusions:
Access to this data will provide increased identification of expected births to HBsAg-positive mothers and assist with targeted intervention strategies.
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