Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Australia, 2005 to 2007

Abstract

Published as Volume 34, Supplement, December 2010.

This report was prepared at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS). This report is the fifth in the biennial series of national reports on vaccine preventable diseases in Australia, bringing together the three most important national sources of routinely collected data about vaccine preventable diseases. This report adds data from January 2006 to December 2007 for notifications collected by the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), from July 2005 to June 2007 for hospitalisation records in the AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database, and from January 2005 to December 2006 for recorded deaths in the AIHW National Mortality Database. Jurisdictional notification data on two diseases for which national notification data are unavailable (varicella-zoster in South Australia and rotavirus in the Northern Territory) are also included.
The general trend towards improved control of disease and improved vaccination coverage is evident, particularly in the childhood years. Detailed results are presented in 16 individual chapters.