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Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2003 to 2006

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Table of Contents
Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2003 to 2006
  Acknowledgement
  Executive Summary
  Introduction
  Methods
   Methods: Vaccine preventable diseases data
   Vaccination coverage data
   Data quality and notes on interpreting data
  Results
   Haemophilus influenzae type b disease
   Hepatitis A
   Hepatitis B (acute)
   Influenza and pneumonia
   Measles
   Meningococcal disease
   Pertussis
   Pnuemococcal disease
   Varicella
  Vaccination coverage
   The Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule/National Immunisation Program 2003 to 2006
   Vaccination coverage estimates from the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander versus other children
   Vaccination coverage estimates from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey and National Health Survey for Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults
  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