Medical and Social Features of Viral Hepatitis B and C in the Russian Federation

Abstract

Viral hepatitis B and C remain an urgent problem for modern healthcare. This study allowed us establishing some of the
trends associated with the above infectious pathologies in the Russian Federation for 2013-2017. There is a decrease in the
incidence of acute viral hepatitis B among the general population by 1.54 times and acute viral hepatitis C by 1.2 times. A
2-fold decrease in the incidence of acute hepatitis B among children and adolescents of 0–17 years old has been
established, and an acute hepatitis C disease has decreased in 1.6 times over the study period in the above-mentioned
cohort. Vaccination of the population against viral hepatitis B over the years analyzed remains at a stable level both among
the general population (2013 - 4.1 million people; 2017 - 3.27 million people) and in the cohort of 0-17 years old (2013 -
1.7 million people; 2017 - 1.77 million people). The work carried out established that the carrier rate of the hepatitis B
among the entire population decreased by 1.2 times for 2013–2017 (2013 - 11.69 per 100 thousand of the population; 2017
- 9.6 per 100 thousand of the population). The incidence of chronic viral hepatitis B decreased 1.6 times for the analyzed
period (2013 - 16.24 per 100 thousand of the population; 2017 - 10.13 per 100 thousand of the population), and chronic
viral hepatitis C - 1.13 times (2013 - 39.21 per 100 thousand of the population; 2017 - 34.6 per 100 thousand of the
population).