Gaba Binggi (Good Needles): Developing an understanding of how two Aboriginal* communities see and experience immunisation during pregnancy

• Main Author: Creighton, Amy Rose
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: The University of Sydney 2016
• Subjects: Indigenous; Aboriginal; First Nations; Immunisation; Australia; Decolonising; Needles The
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15804

Background: First Nation pregnant women experience five times the rate of admission to intensive care from influenza compared with non-First Nations women despite the influenza vaccine being found to be safe and effective in pregnancy. Preliminary coverage data already indicates a gap in immunisatio...