Whooping cough epidemic reaches record numbers GPs are urged to ensure patients have had their vaccine, as ‘staggeringly high’ cases soar to a record-breaking 41,772 so far this year.
‘Practical barriers’ central to low childhood immunisation rates High costs and lack of appointments are the top reasons stopping Australian parents from vaccinating their kids, says groundbreaking new research.
Australian child vaccination rates continue to fall Many jurisdictions are close to the herd immunity threshold for highly infectious diseases like measles, with some areas especially vulnerable.
Could ‘nurse navigators’ help the severely mentally ill? People with serious mental illness are dying much earlier than average from entirely preventable diseases, a situation a new policy aims to improve.
Is Omicron a greater threat to children than previous COVID variants? The new strain has widely been touted as the ‘milder COVID’, but more children are ending up in hospital than ever before.
People who smoke ‘significantly more likely to die’ from COVID And they are 80% more likely to be admitted to hospital than people who do not smoke, according to new research.
Vaccination far lower for people with intellectual disability: Study Researchers say urgent action is needed to address what they describe as systemic neglect.
Preventable hospitalisations reveal access gaps between states, PHNs The data supports findings that areas of lower socioeconomic advantage and higher levels of remoteness need better access to quality primary care.
New figures confirm positive outcomes for vaccine adherence The AIHW has released a series of factsheets on vaccine-preventable diseases, detailing impacts and rates of infection, hospitalisation and vaccination throughout the country.
Hundreds of thousands of hospital admissions potentially preventable More than 715,000 Australians were admitted to hospital with potentially preventable presentations in 2016–17, according to new data from the AIHW.