Open AccessIMMUNIZATION STATUS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN BY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND ETHNICITY
Author(s) -
Roder David
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
community health studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 0314-9021
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1982.tb00346.x
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , ethnic group , measles , immunization , medicine , demography , pediatrics , vaccination , environmental health , population , immunology , political science , sociology , antigen , law
Immunization status is inferior among low socioeconomic groups and ethnic minority populations associated with South Australian primary schools. In general, the status of immunization appears to be particularly unfavourable for measles. Whereas parents reported that 78 percent of children had received some vaccine (or toxoid) since the fourth birthday, and 88 percent in the first year of life, only 51 percent were said to have been immunized against measles.