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J Paediatr Child Health · Apr 2018
No jab, no record: Catch-up vaccination of children in immigration detention.
- Karen M Kiang, Sonja Elia, and Georgia A Paxton.
- Department of General Medicine, Immigrant Health Service, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- J Paediatr Child Health. 2018 Apr 1; 54 (4): 348-350.
AbstractInternational Health and Medical Services (IHMS) are contracted to provide health services, including catch-up vaccination, for individuals in immigration detention. Our audit of catch-up vaccination in asylum seeker children who spent time in held detention demonstrates inadequate and suboptimal vaccine delivery in this setting, and no evidence that IHMS recorded vaccines on the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register at the time. We also found substantial shortfalls in vaccination for these children after they were released from detention. Immunisation in this cohort falls well below Australian community standards, does not demonstrate assurance in IHMS provision of care, and has implications for similar asylum seeker cohorts nationally as well as people in held detention.© 2018 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (The Royal Australasian College of Physicians).
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