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SUMMARY:World Hepatitis Day
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n  You can also share MyHealthfinder’s guide ( https://health.gov/myhealthfinder/topics/health-conditions/hiv-and-other-stds/protect-yourself-hepatitis-b ) to help people in your community protect themselves from hepatitis B.  \n\n\n\n  And be sure to check out our Healthy People 2020 topic area ( https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/immunization-and-infectious-diseases ) about immunization and infectious diseases to learn about national objectives designed to reduce rates of hepatitis.  \n\n\n\nImmunization and Infectious Diseases\n\n\n\nGoal\n\n\n\n  Increase immunization rates and reduce preventable infectious diseases.  \n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\n  The increase in life expectancy during the 20th century is largely due to improvements in child survival; this increase is associated with reductions in infectious disease mortality, due largely to immunization.* Communities with pockets of unvaccinated and undervaccinated populations are at increased risk for outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. In 2008, imported measles resulted in 140 reported cases—nearly a 3-fold increase over the previous year. The emergence of new or replacement strains of vaccine-preventable disease can result in a significant increase in serious illnesses and death.  \n\n\n\nSurveillance\n\n\n\n  The Nation’s public health goals focus on reducing illness, hospitalization, and death from vaccine-preventable diseases and other infectious diseases; expanding surveillance is crucial to those ends. Further efforts to improve disease surveillance will allow for earlier detection of the emergence and spread of diseases. Increased surveillance will save lives by allowing the maximum time possible for public health responses, including vaccine production and development of evidence-based recommendations on disease prevention and control. Surveillance enables rapid information sharing and facilitates the timely identification of people in need of immediate treatment. Increasing laboratory capacity is essential for these efforts.  \n\n\n\nRespiratory Diseases\n\n\n\n  Acute respiratory infections, including pneumonia and influenza, are the 8th leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for 56,000 deaths annually. Pneumonia mortality in children fell by 97 percent in the last century, but respiratory infectious diseases continue to be leading causes of pediatric hospitalization and outpatient visits in the United States. On average, influenza leads to more than 200,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths each year. The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic caused an estimated 270,000 hospitalizations and 12,270 deaths (1,270 of which were of people younger than age 18) between April 2009 and March 2010.2 Below are some specific emerging issues.  \n\n\n\n  Learn MoreCDC HIV/AIDSCDC HepatitisCDC Pulmonary TuberculosisCDC VaccinesCDC Immunization Schedules  \n\n\n\n\nProviding culturally appropriate preventive health care is an immediate responsibility that will grow over the decade. As the demographics of the population continue to shift, public health and health care systems will need to expand their capacity to protect the growing needs of a diverse and aging population.\nNew infectious agents and diseases continue to be detected. Infectious diseases must be looked at in a global context due to increasing:\n\nInternational travel and trade\nMigration\nImportation of foods and agricultural practices\nThreats of bioterrorism\n\n\nInappropriate use of antibiotics and environmental changes multiply the potential for worldwide epidemics of all types of infectious diseases.Back to Top  \n\n\n\nFootnotes\n\n\n\n  *This includes influenza, but does not include deaths due to 2009 H1N1.  \n\n\n\n  †At the time of this printing, the pandemic was not yet over; hospitalizations and deaths were still occurring.  \n\n\n\n    View HP2020 Data for:  Immunization and Infectious Diseases ( https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/Search-the-Data?topic-area=3527 )  \n\n\n\n  Check out our interactive infographic ( https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/midcourse-review/topic-areas ) to see progress toward the Immunization and Infectious Diseases objectives and other Healthy People topic areas.  \n\n\n\n  Source: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/immunization-and-infectious-diseases  \n\n\n\n     \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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