ArticleBMC public health2021
Childhood vaccination coverage in Australia: an equity perspective.
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- Socio-economic inequality underpins inequity in influenza vaccination uptake between public and private secondary schools: an Australian population-based study.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
- Sustaining successes and addressing challenges to vaccination - a continued public health mission.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2025Article
- What happens at two? Immunisation stakeholders' perspectives on factors influencing sub-optimal childhood vaccine uptake for toddlers in regional and remote Western Australia.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Parents' attitudes towards the No Jab No Play legislation in Western Australia: a mixed methods study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- High coverage and timeliness of vaccination of children under 6 years of age in Risaralda, Colombia.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- Determinants of Equity in Coverage of Measles-Containing Vaccines in Wales, UK, during the Elimination Era.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Temporal trends, clinical characteristics, and sociodemographic profile of post-neonatally acquired cerebral palsy in Australia, 1973-2012: A population-based observational study.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2023Observational
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Abstract
backgroundThis study describes trends in social inequities in first dose measles-mumps-rubella (MMR1) vaccination coverage in Western Australia (WA) and New South Wales (NSW). Using probabilistically-linked administrative data for 1.2 million children born between 2002 and 2011, we compared levels and trends in MMR1 vaccination coverage measured at age 24 months by maternal country of birth, Aboriginal status, maternal age at delivery, socio-economic status, and remoteness in two states.
resultsVaccination coverage was 3-4% points lower among children of mothers who gave birth before the age of 20 years, mothers born overseas, mothers with an Aboriginal background, and parents with a low socio-economic status compared to children that did not belong to these social groups. In both states, between 2007 and 2011 there was a decline of 2.1% points in MMR1 vaccination coverage for children whose mothers were born overseas. In 2011, WA had lower coverage among the Aboriginal population (89.5%) and children of young mothers (89.3%) compared to NSW (92.2 and 92.1% respectively).
conclusionDespite overall high coverage of MMR1 vaccination, coverage inequalities increased especially for children of mothers born overseas. Strategic immunisation plans and policy interventions are important for equitable vaccination levels. Future policy should target children of mothers born overseas and Aboriginal children.
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