• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Fifty years of immunisation in Australia (1964–2014): The increasing opportunity to prevent diseases
  • Beteiligte: Royle, Jenny; Lambert, Stephen B
  • Erschienen: Wiley, 2015
  • Erschienen in: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • Umfang: 16-20
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1111/jpc.12796
  • ISSN: 1034-4810; 1440-1754
  • Schlagwörter: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Zusammenfassung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Medicine has seen dramatic changes in the last 50 years, and vaccinology is no different. <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ustralia has made a significant contribution to world knowledge on vaccine‐preventable diseases. Certain deadly diseases have disappeared or become rare in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ustralia following successful introduction of vaccines. As diseases become rarer, public knowledge about the diseases and their serious consequences has decreased, and concerns about potential vaccine side effects have increased. To maintain confidence in immunisations, sharing of detailed information about the vaccines and the diseases we are trying to prevent is integral to the continued success of our public health programme. Modern quality immunisation programmes need to communicate complex information to immunisation providers and also to the general community. Improving immunisation coverage rates and eliminating the gap in coverage and timeliness between <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>boriginal and <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">T</jats:styled-content>orres <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">S</jats:styled-content>trait <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">I</jats:styled-content>slander peoples and non‐<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">I</jats:styled-content>ndigenous people has become a high priority.</jats:p>
  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Medicine has seen dramatic changes in the last 50 years, and vaccinology is no different. <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ustralia has made a significant contribution to world knowledge on vaccine‐preventable diseases. Certain deadly diseases have disappeared or become rare in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ustralia following successful introduction of vaccines. As diseases become rarer, public knowledge about the diseases and their serious consequences has decreased, and concerns about potential vaccine side effects have increased. To maintain confidence in immunisations, sharing of detailed information about the vaccines and the diseases we are trying to prevent is integral to the continued success of our public health programme. Modern quality immunisation programmes need to communicate complex information to immunisation providers and also to the general community. Improving immunisation coverage rates and eliminating the gap in coverage and timeliness between <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>boriginal and <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">T</jats:styled-content>orres <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">S</jats:styled-content>trait <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">I</jats:styled-content>slander peoples and non‐<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">I</jats:styled-content>ndigenous people has become a high priority.</jats:p>
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