Epidemiological Impact of the Korean National Immunization Program on Varicella Incidence

The number of reported varicella cases is continuously increasing in Korea; however, associated medical utilization is declining. The ratio between varicella insurance claims and reports of passive infectious disease surveillance has gradually increased to > 80% since the second half of 2017. The...

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Autores principales: Jung, Jaehun, Ko, Young-Jin, Kim, Young-Eun, Huh, Kyungmin, Park, Byung-Joo, Yoon, Seok-Jun
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Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2019
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6384433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30804728
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e53
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author Jung, Jaehun
Ko, Young-Jin
Kim, Young-Eun
Huh, Kyungmin
Park, Byung-Joo
Yoon, Seok-Jun
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description The number of reported varicella cases is continuously increasing in Korea; however, associated medical utilization is declining. The ratio between varicella insurance claims and reports of passive infectious disease surveillance has gradually increased to > 80% since the second half of 2017. The recent increase in reported varicella cases is influenced by improved reporting. We calculated the varicella incidence and cumulative incidence in each birth cohort according to age. The cumulative incidence rate among children aged < 6 years in the birth cohort born after the National Immunization Program introduced the varicella vaccine was about 60% lower than among children born before
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spelling pubmed-63844332019-02-26 Epidemiological Impact of the Korean National Immunization Program on Varicella Incidence Jung, Jaehun Ko, Young-Jin Kim, Young-Eun Huh, Kyungmin Park, Byung-Joo Yoon, Seok-Jun J Korean Med Sci Brief Communication The number of reported varicella cases is continuously increasing in Korea; however, associated medical utilization is declining. The ratio between varicella insurance claims and reports of passive infectious disease surveillance has gradually increased to > 80% since the second half of 2017. The recent increase in reported varicella cases is influenced by improved reporting. We calculated the varicella incidence and cumulative incidence in each birth cohort according to age. The cumulative incidence rate among children aged < 6 years in the birth cohort born after the National Immunization Program introduced the varicella vaccine was about 60% lower than among children born before The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2019-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6384433/ /pubmed/30804728 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e53 Text en © 2019 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Jung, Jaehun
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Huh, Kyungmin
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Epidemiological Impact of the Korean National Immunization Program on Varicella Incidence
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title_short Epidemiological Impact of the Korean National Immunization Program on Varicella Incidence
title_sort epidemiological impact of the korean national immunization program on varicella incidence
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6384433/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e53
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