Australia: Immunisation Issues For Indigenous Australian Children

Australia: Immunisation Issues For Indigenous Australian Children Robert Menzies, and Ross Andrews, 2011   Vaccination has provided major benefits to the health of indigenous children in the face of continuing poorer socioe-conomic conditions but several issues have been identified for improvement. While indigenous children are vaccinated at high rates for the standard schedule vaccines, vaccination is more commonly delayed. Coverage for ‘targeted’ vaccines is substantially lower, and data...

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