Hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women in Taiwan: Comparison between women born in Taiwan and other southeast countries |
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| Authors: | Ching-Chiang Lin Hsiu-Shu Hsieh Yu-Jie Huang Yeou-Lih Huang Ming-Kun Ku Hsin-Chia Hung |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Laboratory Medicine, Fooyin University Hospital, Pingtong, Taiwan;(2) Basic Medical Science Education Center, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;(3) Graduate Institute of medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;(4) Department of Nursing, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan;(5) Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital – Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;(6) Faculty of Biomedical Laboratory Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan;(7) Department of Internal Medicine Fooyin University Hospital, Pingtong, Taiwan;(8) Graduate Institute of Health Care, MeiHo Institute of Technology, Pingtong, Taiwan;(9) Global Center of Excellence for Oral Health Research and Development, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Background Taiwan's national vaccination program has successfully decreased the prevalence of hepatitis B infection after twenty years of implementation and might be indirectly beneficial to the second generation. In this study, we compared the hepatitis B infection status of two groups: pregnant Taiwanese women and other Southeast Asian women, who because they had immigrated later in life to Taiwan by marriage to a Taiwanese man, had not been exposed to that vaccination program to evaluate the effect of hepatitis vaccination program on women of child-bearing age and further explored the potential impact of immigration on the hepatitis B public health policy in Taiwan. |
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