State and territory burden
The burden of vaccine preventable diseases in Australia—summary
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Topic: Immunisation
Citation
AIHW
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) The burden of vaccine preventable diseases in Australia—summary, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 28 April 2024.
APA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2019). The burden of vaccine preventable diseases in Australia—summary. Canberra: AIHW.
MLA
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The burden of vaccine preventable diseases in Australia—summary. AIHW, 2019.
Vancouver
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. The burden of vaccine preventable diseases in Australia—summary. Canberra: AIHW; 2019.
Harvard
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2019, The burden of vaccine preventable diseases in Australia—summary, AIHW, Canberra.
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This summary report presents key findings from the Burden of Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Australia study which focused on diseases with vaccines on Australia’s National Immunisation Program schedule. It provides estimates of the burden of disease for each disease individually, as well as for the diseases as a group, for 2005 and 2015. Estimates of vaccine preventable disease burden among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians for a subset of diseases are also presented.
This is a companion report to The burden of vaccine preventable diseases in Australia.
- ISBN: 978-1-76054-640-3
- Cat. no: PHE 242
- Pages: 20
Findings from this report:
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80% of the vaccine preventable burden in 2015 was due to premature death
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Influenza contributed over one-third (36%) of the total vaccine preventable burden in 2015
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The rate of vaccine preventable burden was highest among infants and those aged 85 and older
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In 2015, 10% of the burden due to vaccine preventable diseases was among Indigenous Australians