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Immunisation
Helping to protect you and our community
from harmful infections
Immunisation and vaccination
Immunisation
– process of making a person immune or resistant to
infectious disease
Vaccination
– administration of a vaccine
Vaccine
– interacts with the body’s immune system
Benefits of immunisation
• Protects
– the individual
– the community
• Reasons
– reduces illness, disability and death
– controls, prevents and eradicates disease
– cost effective health strategy
– accessible health strategy
Childhood vaccines
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Whooping cough (pertussis)
Measles
German measles (rubella)
Meningococcal C
Pneumococcal disease
Chickenpox (varicella)
Tetanus
Mumps
Polio
Diphtheria
Rotavirus
Hepatitis
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Under immunisation
• Individual immunisation levels are incomplete
• Reasons for under immunisation:
– vaccine safety concerns
– health access problems
– socioeconomic situation
• Can put community high vaccination levels at risk
National Immunisation Program
Adult vaccines
• Depends on:
– age
– lifestyle
– medical conditions
– travel plans
– workplaces
• NIP
– for special groups
– influenza
– pneumococcal
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Effectiveness of vaccines
• No vaccine is 100% effective
• Risk from disease is much higher than risk from vaccine
• Depends on
– age of the person receiving the vaccine
– person’s ability to form an immune response
– similarity between circulating virus strains and the
vaccine
Myths and realities
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Vaccines aren’t safe
Children get too many vaccines
Adults don’t need vaccines
My child has a cold, so they shouldn’t get immunised
Vaccines have too many side effects
Immunisation causes autism
Homeopathy and vaccination
• Homeopathic vaccines
– made by diluting disease, tissue or plant extracts
– claim to reduce the incidence or severity of disease
– no scientific basis to claims
• Australian Register of Homeopaths advises people to
receive conventional vaccines
Side effects
• Generally mild and short-lived
• Treatment not required
• Examples:
– at injection site
• pain, redness, itching
• small, hard lump
– low grade fever
• Stay in the surgery/clinic for 15 minutes after being
vaccinated
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Managing side effects
Relieve symptoms:
• Cold cloth at injection site
• Give extra fluids
• Keep babies cool
• Extra comforting
• Paracetamol
– only use if there is a high fever
– give exactly according to the label
– recommended dose: 15mg/kg every 4-6 hours
• See a doctor or go to hospital if the reaction to the vaccine is
severe
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Pharmacist’s role
• Answer your concerns and questions
– vaccine safety
– reactions and side effects
– current immunisation issues
• Provide you with educational material
Resources - consumers
Australian Immunisation Handbook 9th edition
Immunise Australia Program
Better Health Channel
National Prescribing Service
Healthinsite
All state health services
Questions