Study carried through the period understood between June of 2001 and July of 2002, in an agricultural area of the city of Alto Paraíso, state of Rondônia, Amazônia Occidental, Brazil. It has as aím to determine the vaccine covering against hepatitis B and to identify the reasons for the non-vaccination. The population studied inc!udes 460 people, understanding 216 children and 244 adolescents in the average of O to 19 years old. Descriptive study based on domiciliary inquiry, using the methodology of sampling per conglomerate, individual vaccine inquiry and application of inquiries semi structuralized to identify the possible reasons for the non vaccination. The adopted procedures had consequently included the population re-register of 191 famílies and consequently data-collecting of the housing conditions, sanitation and familiar income and evaluation of the composition, form of organization and the process of work of the team of the family's health. The joined results point vaccine covering against Hepatitis B of 45,0%, calculated for the statistical method. In children the found vaccine covering was of 71,5% and in adolescents of 21,7%. Indices significantly inferior to the registers and officialized by the cities and calculated by the administrative method. The main reasons of the non-vaccination occur in the defíciency of information and/or orientation about health. In adolescent users the fear of injection is the main reason for the non-vaccination. Intense social mobility, the deficiencies of communication and geographic accessibility, the extensive geographic area occupied by the population and the fact of the vaccination demanding three vaccinates doses, intercalated between zero to six months, indicate the necessity of not traditional strategies of vaccination and extra wall, associated to the use of innovative resources and original, regional procedures, to reach satisfactory indices of vaccine covering.
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