Methodology for measuring Australia's childhood immunisation coverage.

Since the Workshop, the Minister for Health and Family Services has confirmed that the first stage of the Enhanced Measles Control Program will take place in 1998-99. An additional dose of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR) will be offered to all primary school children in Australia in a school-based program between July and October 1998; the second scheduled dose of MMR vaccine will be brought forward and given to children at the age of 4-5 years and the parents of preschool-aged children will be urged to be certain that their children have received at least one dose of MMR vaccine. There will also be an educational program aimed at ensuring that all high school aged children and young people have received two doses of MMR vaccine.