Vaccine preventable diseases and vaccination coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia, 1999 to 2002 [Supplementary issue]

Abstract

Volume 28, Supplement 1, June 2004

This supplement was also published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence, Volume 28, Issue No 2. This version is slightly different in that it includes an Abstract which is a condensed version of the Executive Summary.

This report complements the format of the Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Vaccination Coverage reports produced biannually since 2000 by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in association with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It integrates the available sources of routinely collected data relevant to the current status of vaccine preventable diseases and vaccine coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. It aims to better inform Indigenous communities, Indigenous health care providers and planners of immunisation services of the current status and future needs for vaccine prevention in Indigenous people.