Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2003 to 2006
Results
Up to Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 32 Supplement - June 2008
Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Australia, 2003 to 2006
Up to Communicable Diseases Intelligence Volume 32 Supplement - June 2008
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