Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Australia, 2003 to 2005
This is the fourth report on vaccine preventable disease and vaccination coverage in Australia, and is produced by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing published as a supplement to the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal Volume 31, June 2007.
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Executive summary
- Introduction
Methods- Vaccine preventable diseases
- Vaccination coverage
- Discussion
- Appendix 1. Historical charts of notifications of vaccine preventable diseases
- Appendix 2. Notifications by state or territory (January 2000–December 2005)
- Appendix 3. Hospitalisations by state or territory (1 July 2000–30 June 2005)
- Appendix 4. Changes to the Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule (1992–2005)
- Appendix 5. Government funding of national immunisation programs in Australia
- Appendix 6. Notifiable diseases definitions in use prior to 2004
- Abbreviations
- References
This report was prepared at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS) by:
Julia Brotherton, Han Wang, Andrea Schaffer, Helen Quinn, Robert Menzies, Brynley Hull, Glenda Lawrence, James Wood, Nicholas Wood, Alexander Rosewell, Anthony Newall, Raina MacIntyre, Kristine Macartney, Heather Gidding, Peter McIntyre, Robert Booy
University of Sydney, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
NCIRS is a collaborating unit of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
ISBN: 1-74186-241-8
Online ISBN: 1-74186-242-6
Publications Number: P3 -1676
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