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Is confidence in immunisation declining?
O Mansoor1, D Sarfati, G Durham
1Public Health Group, Ministry of Health, Wellington. ossi_mansoor@moh.govt.nz
The New Zealand Medical Journal
|October 7, 1998
Abstract:
There is no regular immunisation coverage information in New Zealand that is reliable. Immunisation benefit data do provide an indication of trends. The benefit data show a decline in coverage in 1997, after several years of improving coverage. The reasons for the decline are not known, but media reports which dented public and professional confidence in immunisation may have played a role.