our government recommends four booster doses for people as young as 6 months old. The shots have even been added to the child immunization schedule. Yet there is no protest whatsoever from the GOP establishment, including the biggest voice among them – Donald J. Trump. Just how radical is...
Catch-up vaccination is a personalised process through which children with missing recommended vaccinations or incomplete vaccination records are brought up to date with the Australian vaccination schedule. Navigating childhood catch-up vaccination can be difficult for migrant parents with inadequate health ...
3.2.2.2. WHEN parents received information about catch-up vaccination The catch-up process was “all new” (Session 1) for most parents; many were not provided with information prior to leaving for Australia and it was not until they tried to enrol their child into childcare or kindergarten ...
One potential downside of earlier second-dose vaccination is the potential for waning immunity. Modeling the effect of this schedule change on population immunity to measles in Australia was sensitive to assumptions regarding the extent of waning of vaccine-derived immunity.28 Waning immunity may also...
vaccinationAim Infection is an important and frequent cause of mortality and morbidity following allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). This study was conducted to determine the epidemiology and clinical phenotype of vaccine‐preventable disease in children who have undergone HSCT ...
The vaccine-autism debate has been going on for years. It has been a tale of shifting beliefs as child vaccination rates remain high. On February 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist and his colleagues published a paper that supposedly linked Autism to Vaccines(5). More specifical...
MiCare is a Child Safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children. MiCare says “NO” to Family Violence. We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe, respected, valued and treated as equals. MiCare is committed to equal opportunity ...
Support for vulnerable families was identified as one of its six reform priorities; ‘Improving outreach and engagement with vulnerable families in supporting child development in the home and in participating in services at all levels, especially universal health, early childhood education and care, ...
In 2016, Australia introduced the “No Jab, No Pay” legislation, which removed the option of non-medical exemptions from the vaccination requirements to receive certain family and child care tax benefits. We aimed to gauge parental support for “No Jab, No Pay” and explore how it has impac...
HBV in Australia disproportionately affects residents born overseas in HBV-endemic areas, accounting for 61% of infections [5,6], and can be attributed to the lack of a universal vaccination programme prior to 2014, mother-to-child (vertical) transmission, and transmission from other close ...