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Too many Australians aren’t getting a flu vaccine. Why, and what can we do about it?

  • Written by Holly Seale, Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
Too many Australians aren’t getting a flu vaccine. Why, and what can we do about it?Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock

Australia’s childhood immunisation program gets very good uptake every year – almost 94% of five-year-olds have had all their routine vaccinations. But our influenza vaccine coverage doesn’t get such a good report card.

Looking back over recent years, for kids aged six months to five years, we saw a peak in...

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