[PROVE] Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine

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[PROVE note: It certainly isn't because the vaccine isn't available to them why

most health care workers won't get the flu shot. If the people giving the flu

vaccine and promoting it won't take it themselves, why should anyone else want

it? Maybe doctor really does know best in this instance...]

Only 38 Percent of Health Care Workers Get Flu Vaccine - Yahoo! News

Posted: Tuesday January 24, 2006 - 07:00:30 am

LiveScience StaffLiveScience.com Tue Jan 24, 10:00 AM ET

In a study of 1,651 U.S. healthcare workers, only 38 percent were vaccinated

against the flu.

Influenza is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. The Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention recommends vaccinating healthcare workers with

direct patient contact as a priority to prevent spread of the disease.

Vaccination rates were particularly low in workers who were health aides,

African American or under 50.

The study, led by researchers at the University of Southern California, Los

Angeles and Harvard University, will be detailed in the February edition of the

Journal of General Internal Medicine. It was based on data from a survey done in

2000.

The low vaccination rates increase the odds that health care workers will get

the flu and transmit it to their patients, the researchers said. They recommend

education campaigns to raise vaccination rates among the groups least likely to

be getting the shots.

The report was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

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