Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2003 to 2006
This is the second report on vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and complements the Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage reports produced biannually since 2000.
Table of contents
- Acknowledgement
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
Methods- Results
- Vaccination coverage
- Discussion
- Appendix A. Summary of notifications in Australia,* for vaccine preventable diseases,† 2003 to 2006, by Indigenous status
- Appendix B. Summary of hospitalisations and deaths in Australia,* for vaccine preventable diseases,† 2002 to 2005, by Indigenous status
- Appendix C. List of health conditions of interest from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey selected as indicators of prevalence of risk factors for which pneumococcal or influenza vaccination was recommended in Indigenous adults
- Appendix D. Notifiable diseases definitions in use prior to 2004
- Appendix E. Additional tables on risk factor prevalence and vaccination coverage data
- Abbreviations
- References
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This report was prepared at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS) by:
Robert Menzies
Caroline Turnour
Clayton Chiu
Peter McIntyre
University of Sydney
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
on behalf of
Communicable Diseases Intelligence
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
NCIRS is a collaborating unit of the
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
© Commonwealth of Australia 2008
ISBN: 1-74186-598-0
Online ISBN: 1-74186-599-9
Publications Number: P3 -3829
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