Vaccination against yellow fever in an amazon municipality: prevalence and associated factors (Mâncio Lima, Acre, 2012)

Abstract

Yellow fever is an acute, febrile, non-contagious infectious disease that remains endemic in the tropical forests of the American continent and in Africa and periodically causes isolated outbreaks or epidemics of impact on public health in these places. The objective of this study was to evaluate the yellow fever vaccination status in a sample of individuals from the urban area of ​​the municipality of Mâncio Lima, an endemic area of ​​yellow fever in the Brazilian Amazon, and the factors associated with vaccination. This work is a stratified cross-sectional study performed in 2012. Factors associated with vaccination were age, paid work in the previous 90 days (p <0.001), years of schooling (p = 0.016) type of house roof (p = 0.007), having garbage collected by the public service (p = 0.032) have a stereo (p = 0.024), have a hammock (p = 0.011), having a form of formal income (p = 0.025), hunting for subsistence (p = 0.010) and current occupation (p <0.001). In addition, there is a lack of information in the study because many adults no longer knew how to inform if they had already had the vaccine and did not even have a vaccination card anymore. It was concluded that of the 599 people interviewed, 493 vaccinated against yellow fever while 106 did not vaccinate.