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The Australian Immunisation Handbook 10th Edition 2013

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disease rates similar to older non-Indigenous adults (aged ≥50 years), but have<br />

much higher rates than non-Indigenous persons of the same age. In younger<br />

Indigenous adults rates are at least 8 times higher for hospitalisations and<br />

20 times higher for deaths, compared to younger non-Indigenous adults. 5 In<br />

addition, hospitalisation rates in Indigenous children aged

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