Reports and Findings
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Sharing knowledge about immunisation (SKAI): An exploration of parents' communication needs to inform development of a clinical communication support interventionThe Sharing Knowledge About Immunisation project aims to develop effective communication tools to support primary health care providers' consultations with parents
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Midwives’ attitudes, beliefs and concerns about childhood vaccination: A review of the global literatureThe majority of midwives supported vaccination, although a spectrum of beliefs and concerns emerged
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Vaccine hesitancy, refusal and access barriers: The need for clarity in terminologyWe propose more precision in the term 'vaccine hesitancy' is needed particularly since much under-vaccination arises from factors related to access or pragmatics
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Hesitant compliers': Qualitative analysis of concerned fully-vaccinating parentsParents interpreted pivotal vaccine-related events in the community as requiring them to take personal responsibility for vaccine decisions
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Vaccine decision-making begins in pregnancy: Correlation between vaccine concerns, intentions and maternal vaccination with subsequent childhood vaccine uptakeNew interventions to improve both education and communication on childhood and maternal vaccines may reduce vaccine hesitancy for all mothers in pregnancy
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Active surveillance of 2017 seasonal influenza vaccine safety: An observational cohort study of individuals aged 6 months and older in AustraliaAusVaxSafety surveillance demonstrated comparable and expected safety outcomes for the 2017 quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine brands used in Australia
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Trajectories of childhood immune development and respiratory health relevant to asthma and allergyOur findings demonstrate the utility of unsupervised analysis in elucidating heterogeneity in asthma pathogenesis
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Alignment of supermarket own brand foods’ front-of-pack nutrition labelling with measures of nutritional quality: An australian perspectiveThis study aimed to examine prevalence of front-of-pack nutrition labels on supermarket own brand foods, and alignment with patterns of nutritional quality
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Prevalence of Racial Discrimination in a Cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ChildrenThis study looked at the frequency of racism experiences over time in a population of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children
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Increased prevalence of expiratory flow limitation during exercise in children with bronchopulmonary dysplasiaExpiratory flow limitation is more prevalent in children born preterm with bronchopulmonary dysplasia and is associated with airway obstruction