Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2003 to 2006
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Up to Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 32 Supplement - June 2008
- 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
7vPCV 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
23vPPV 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine
ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACIR Australian Childhood Immunisation Register
AIHW Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Anti-HBc Hepatitis B core antibody
ASVS Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule
ATAGI Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
BCG Bacille Calmette-Guérin
DT (dT) Diphtheria-tetanus
DTP Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis
DTPa Diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (acellular)
dTpa Adolescent/adult diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (acellular)
HAV Hepatitis A virus
HBV Hepatitis B virus
HBsAg Hepatitis B surface antigen
Hep A Hepatitis A (vaccine abbreviation)
Hep B Hepatitis B (vaccine abbreviation)
Hib Haemophilus influenzae type b
ICD International Classification of Diseases
ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision
ICD-10-AM International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision, Australian Modification
IgG Immunoglobulin G
IgM Immunoglobulin M
IPD Invasive pneumococcal disease
IPV Inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine
MenCCV Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine
MMR Measles-mumps-rubella
NATSIHS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey
NCIRS National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases
NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
NHS National Health Survey
NIP National Immunisation Program
NIPII National Indigenous Pneumococcal and Influenza Immunisation (Program)
NNDSS National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System
PRP-OMP Haemophilus influenzae type b polysaccharide conjugated to the outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis
PRP-T Haemophilus influenzae type b polysaccharide conjugated to tetanus toxoid
SSPE Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
VPD Vaccine preventable disease
VZV Varicella-zoster virus
