Australia: Reduction In Disparity For Pneumonia Hospitalisations Between Australian Indigenous ...

Australia: Reduction In Disparity For Pneumonia Hospitalisations Between Australian Indigenous And Non-Indigenous Children Hannah C Moore, Deborah Lehmann, Nicholas de Klerk, Peter Jacoby, and Peter C Richmond, 2011   Background: In the 1990s pneumonia hospitalisation rates in Western Australia (WA) were 13 times higher in Indigenous children than in non-Indigenous children. Rates of invasive pneumococcal disease in Indigenous children declined following the introduction in 2001 of 7-valent...

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