No jab, no record: Catch-up vaccination of children in immigration detention.
J Paediatr Child Health
; 54(4): 348-350, 2018 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-29297206
ABSTRACT
International Health and Medical Services (IHMS) are contracted to provide health services, including catch-up vaccination, for individuals in immigration detention. Our audit of catch-up vaccination in asylum seeker children who spent time in held detention demonstrates inadequate and suboptimal vaccine delivery in this setting, and no evidence that IHMS recorded vaccines on the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register at the time. We also found substantial shortfalls in vaccination for these children after they were released from detention. Immunisation in this cohort falls well below Australian community standards, does not demonstrate assurance in IHMS provision of care, and has implications for similar asylum seeker cohorts nationally as well as people in held detention.
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Assunto principal:
Refugiados
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Vacinação
Limite:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Paediatr Child Health
Assunto da revista:
PEDIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article
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Austrália