title: NSW Annual Immunisation Coverage Report, 2009.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This is the first in a series of annual immunisation coverage reports that document trends in NSW for a range of standard measures derived from Australian Childhood Immunisation Register data, including overall coverage at standard age milestones and for individual vaccines. This report includes data up to and including 2009.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register, the NSW Health Survey and the NSW School Immunisation Program were used to calculate various measures of population coverage relating to childhood vaccines, adult influenza and pneumococcal vaccines and adolescent vaccination, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Immunise Australia Program targets have been reached for children at 12 and 24 months of age but not for children at 5 years of age. Delayed receipt of vaccines is an issue for vaccines recommended for Aboriginal children. Pneumococcal vaccination in the elderly has been steadily rising, although it has remained lower than the influenza coverage estimates. For adolescents, there is better coverage for the first and second doses of human papillomavirus vaccine and the dose of dTpa than for varicella.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This comprehensive analysis provides important baseline data for NSW against which future reports can be compared to monitor progress in improving immunisation coverage. Immunisation at the earliest appropriate age should be a public health goal for countries such as Australia where high levels of vaccine coverage at milestone ages have been achieved.
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance,The Children's Hospital at Westmead. brynleyh@chw.edu.au
authors.forename: Brynley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hull
authors.forename: Aditi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dey
authors.forename: Deepika
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mahajan
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Campbell-Lloyd
authors.forename: Robert I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Menzies
authors.forename: Peter B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: McIntyre
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000465:Algorithms; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D018563:Disease Notification; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007114:Immunization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007223:Infant; D017053:Infection Control; D009517:New South Wales / Q000453:epidemiology; D011634:Public Health; D012042:Registries