Journal article
Long-term impact of childhood hepatitis B vaccination programs on prevalence among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women giving birth in Western Australia
J Reekie, JM Kaldor, DB Mak, J Ward, B Donovan, JS Hocking, D Preen, B Liu
Vaccine | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Background/Aims: To evaluate the long-term effect of infant and childhood hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination programs among birthing women in Western Australia. Methods: A cohort of Western Australian women born from 1974 to 1995 was created using Birth Registrations and Electoral Roll records. They were linked to a perinatal register and notifiable diseases register to identify women having respectively their first births between 2000 and 2012 and diagnoses of HBV infections. HBV prevalence was estimated in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women, and according to maternal birth year cohorts. Results: Of 66,073 women, 155 (0.23%) had a linked non-acute HBV notification. HBV prevalence was five times..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank the staff at the Western Australian Data Linkage Branch, WA Department of Health Data Collections, WA Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, WA Electoral Commission. This work was supported by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) [grant number APP1020628]. BL, JH, BD, JW, JK are supported by NHMRC fellowships.