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Falling vaccination rates put children at risk of preventable diseases. Governments need a new strategy to boost uptake

  • Written by Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
Falling vaccination rates put children at risk of preventable diseases. Governments need a new strategy to boost uptakeYuri A/Shutterstock

Child vaccination is one of the most cost-effective health interventions. It accounts for 40% of the global reduction in infant deaths since 1974 and has led to big health gains in Australia over the past two decades.

Australia has been a vaccination success story. Ten years after we begun mass vaccination against polio in 1956,...

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