The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing recently published Australia’s latest 5-year national immunisation strategy, to increase and sustain immunisation uptake in Australia.
The strategy defines 6 priority areas:
- improve access to immunisation, with a focus on equity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other priority populations
- build trust, understanding and acceptance of immunisation in communities
- use data more effectively to target immunisation strategies and monitor performance
- strengthen the immunisation workforce
- harness new technologies to respond to the evolving communicable disease and vaccine landscape
- implement sustainable reform in vaccine program governance, program delivery and accountability.
Read the strategy in full on the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing website.