title: [Occupational exposure and prevention of viral hepatitis B in health care personnel in the Canton of Sarajevo].
abstract: Health workers are exposed to the accidental injuries with blood, so that increasing of HBsAg among inhabitants in Bosnia and Herzegovina and professional risk for VHB is increased in this risk group. Among 6.712 health workers in Canton Sarajevo, it's expected that 1.217 health workers will be exposed to the professional accidental injury with the blood, but it's expected annually 44 professionally infected health workers with HBV. With introduction of vaccine against HBV it would come to very important decreasing of the diseases among health workers (p < 0.001), but the risk for the disease HBV would decrease 45 times.
authors.affiliation: Institut za epidemiologiju, Medicinski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu.
authors.forename: Habiba
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Salihović
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Puvacić
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control; D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D006282:Health Personnel; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016602:Needlestick Injuries / Q000821:virology; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D012307:Risk Factors