Letter to the Editor in response to the article by Borg et al

As Australian First Nations people, public health practitioners and academics, we would like to thank Borg et al. for the raising the importance of increasing influenza vaccination rates [1]. The coverage of influenza immunisation in Australian First Nations children is close to 50% in the Northern...

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Published in:Vaccine
Main Authors: Crooks, Kristy, Clark, Katrina, Allan, Natalie, Taylor, Paula, Miller, Adrian, Campbell, Sandra
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019
Subjects:
Biological sciences
Agricultural
veterinary and food sciences
Biomedical and clinical sciences
First Nations
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10072/392235
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.05.021
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Summary:As Australian First Nations people, public health practitioners and academics, we would like to thank Borg et al. for the raising the importance of increasing influenza vaccination rates [1]. The coverage of influenza immunisation in Australian First Nations children is close to 50% in the Northern Territory but is very low in most other states, thus this is a topic worthy of research. We would, however, like to offer an additional interpretation of their study results. Raising immunisation coverage from 4% to 6% is reported in the paper as a statistically significant result. We feel the most important result is that at least 94% of children remained unimmunised. Full Text

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