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The Health Improvement and Innovation Resource Centre (HIIRC) is your source of knowledge to improve New Zealand’s health care system. Sponsored by the Ministry of Health, HIIRC has been developed to support performance and quality improvement efforts.
Important note: This site is no longer being actively maintained and is presented here as an online archive. While it still contains a wealth of useful information, visitors who want to receive the latest health information should register to receive the fortnightly email Digest. This will link you directly to articles of interest in the key areas covered by this site. You can register for the Digest here.
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International Literature
Responding to a measles outbreak in a Pacific island community in western Sydney: Community interviews led to church-based immunization clinics
posted by WM Admin on 2015-05-13 09:23:40.885
There are large Pacific island communities in western and south-western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 2011 and 2012, measles…
International Literature
Measles outbreaks in Australia: Obstacles to vaccination
posted by WM Admin on 2015-03-02 09:47:17.729
In this paper, the authors review psychological and sociocultural determinants that impact on a parent's decision to refuse vaccination for…
Research Review
Paediatric Vaccines Research Review 20
posted by WM Admin on 2014-11-18 09:42:20.446
Studies reported in this issue (attached below): HPV vaccines: WHO position paper Long-term study of a quadrivalent HPV vaccine Herd…
Research Review
Paediatric Vaccines Research Review 19
posted by WM Admin on 2014-09-08 14:08:34.489
Studies reported in this issue (attached below): Safety of vaccines used for routine immunisation Whooping cough in school-age children Timely…
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NZ Literature Abstracts
- The Refugee Health and Wellbeing Project: Changes in knowledge, attitude and practice of participants in the health and wellbeing programme
- Follow-up of MMR vaccination status in children referred to a pediatric immunization clinic on account of egg allergy
- Audience research: Delayers of infant immunisation
- Attitudes to immunisation: A survey of health professionals in the Rotorua District
- Health needs of refugee children younger than 5 years arriving in New Zealand
International Literature
- Improving MMR vaccination rates: Herd immunity is a realistic goal (UK)
- Responding to a measles outbreak in a Pacific island community in western Sydney: Community interviews led to church-based immunization clinics
- Safety of vaccines used for routine immunization of US children: A systematic review
- Live vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella and the risk of hospital admissions for nontargeted infections (Denmark)
- Vaccine message framing and parents’ intent to immunise their infants for MMR (U.S.)
