TY - Report PY - 2013 T1 - Healthy communities: immunisation rates for children in 2011-12 PB - National Health Performance Authority DO - https://doi.org/APO-33519 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/33519 AB - Immunisation helps protect individuals and the community generally against potentially serious diseases such as measles, polio, tetanus and whooping cough (pertussis). Although the great majority of children in Australia are immunised, it is important to maintain high immunisation rates to reduce the risk of outbreaks of these and other diseases recurring. ER -