Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Australia, 2005 to 2007
This is the fifth 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 34, December 2010.
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Executive summary
- 1. Introduction
2. Methods- 3. Vaccine preventable diseases
- 4. Vaccination coverage
- 5. Discussion
- Appendix 6.1 Charts of historical notification data of selected vaccine preventable diseases in Australia
- Appendix 6.2 Notifications of selected vaccine preventable diseases, January 2002 to December 2007, by state or territory
- Appendix 6.3 Hospitalisations, July 2002 to June 2007, by state or territory and financial year of separation
- Appendix 6.4 Changes in vaccination practice in Australia 1992 to 2007* (including the Australian Standard Vaccination Schedule and National Immunisation Program schedule†)
- Appendix 6.5 Government funded national immunisation programs in Australia (up to December 2007)
- Appendix 6.6 Case definitions of selected notifiable vaccine preventable diseases prior to 2004
- Abbreviations
This report was prepared at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS) by:
Clayton Chiu, Aditi Dey, Han Wang, Robert Menzies, Shelley Deeks, Deepika Mahajan, Kristine Macartney, Julia Brotherton, Andrew Jardine, Helen Quinn, Jane Jelfs, Robert Booy, Glenda Lawrence, Sanjay Jayasinghe, April Roberts, Sanjaya Senanayake, Nicholas Wood, Peter McIntyre
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: 978-1-74241-308-2
Online ISBN: 978-1-74241-309-9
Publications Approval Number D0003
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