Trends of tuberculosis incidence among medical workers in the Vinnytsіa region

Abstract

Annotation. The difficult situation regarding tuberculosis in Ukraine requires the implementation of more effective and accessible tuberculosis infection control programs in medical institutions. The goal is to study the characteristics of the incidence and analyze the structure of tuberculosis among medical workers of the Vinnytsia region from 2007 to 2023. We processed reporting forms, cards of outpatients and inpatients of 207 medical workers of the Vinnytsia region, in whom tuberculosis was confirmed from 2007 to 2023, inclusive. A retrospective and prospective analysis of official medical documentation was carried out, the results of which were subject to mathematical and statistical processing (statistical observation; group analytical statistical summary using computer images in Microsoft packages, linear univariate correlation-regression analysis). We studied the main trends in the incidence of tuberculosis among medical workers, conducted an analysis of the structure of cases of this disease in various professional categories of medical personnel of general treatment network institutions and anti-tuberculosis institutions. During the 17-year period of the study, 163 cases of tuberculosis were detected in medical workers of the general treatment network and 44 cases in anti-tuberculosis institutions. Although the average incidence of tuberculosis among medical workers over the 17-year period of the study was slightly lower than in the population of the region (46.8 per 100,000 medical workers versus 56.8 per 100,000 population of the region), nevertheless, the indicators remain consistently high. The situation with morbidity among the medical staff of anti-tuberculosis institutions requires special attention, where the incidence of tuberculosis is 17 times higher than in the general treatment network.