Objectives:

The flu is a disease which causes a high health care costs. To avoid the contagion, both of the patient toward the staff and the staff to the patient, is the recommended influenza vaccination of healthcare workers. The main objective of the study was to assess the coverage of influenza vaccination in Fuenlabrada Hospital University of workers between the years 2006 to 2015. Secondary objectives: the analysis of the vaccination coverage by type of profession, age and year of vaccination, and finally to assess a strategic planning of flu vaccination.

Material and methods:

The hospital has an average population of 1,505 workers, in the study period 2006-2015. Descriptive study was conducted by analyzing longitudinal vaccination coverage.

Results:

2,749 healthcare workers ere vaccinated a total of in the years from 2006-2015, with a general index of vaccine coverage of 18.25%. The vaccine coverage was higher in the year 2009, the year of the last epidemic Influenza A (H1N1), with a vaccination in index of 38.36 %. The worst vaccine registry is obtained in the year 2007 with an index of 13.95 %. Professional categories non-health personnel is more vaccine (25.64 %) that the health personnel (17.00 %). Vaccine is more in the range between the ages of 41-50 years and less between minors and equal to 30 years.

Conclusions:

The vaccine coverage increases in those years in which specific epidemic waves appear, as occurred in the year 2009. It seems necessary a odification of the vaccination strategy, generating greater adhesion of the professional, a specific education and facilitating schedules and flocking to their units.

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