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

Abstract

Published as Volume 32, Supplement, June 2008.

This report was prepared at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS). This, the second report on vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, brings together the relevant sources of routinely collected data on vaccine preventable diseases – notifications, hospitalisations, deaths, and childhood and adult vaccination coverage. As a result of continued improvements in the collection of data on Indigenous status, this second report is considerably
more comprehensive, with data available from more jurisdictions, and more detailed resentation, including time trends and vaccination coverage by jurisdiction.