An extensive survey of New Zealand primary care practices, which took place between 2004 and 2006, has highlighted a wide variability in immunisation coverage between practices and thrown light on many of the factors behind such variability.
Read the full article in the March 2012 issue of HRC News (pages 12 - 13), which also looks at how immunisation monitoring and coverage has improved since the inception of this research project, and the postive contribution practice nurses can make in lifting immunisation rates.
TVONE's Close Up: Parents urged to get whooping cough booster vaccine
A public health expert says adults who are around infants need to consider getting a booster vaccination against whooping cough, which is at epidemic levels in New Zealand.
Watch Dr Cameron Grant and Dr Nikki Turner on Close Up (16 May 2012).