There are too many old people omission Protested vaccinations for serious diseases, hospitalization and even death, flu, shingles and pneumococci.
new Grattan Institute report The vaccination rate varies greatly depending on the GP in the GP and emphasizes an important place to find opportunities to promote vaccination.
Many people are vaccinated at pharmacies, and these vaccinations are calculated in our analysis. But we saw the GPS because GPS played an important role in promoting vaccination and the unique role of supervising someone’s health care.
We found that in some GPS, nine out of 10 patients were vaccinated. For others, there were only four in 10 people. The difference between shingles and covid was much bigger. In the case of pneumococcal disease, the GPS’s patient vaccination rate was 13 times different.
A little change is inevitable, but these differences are big and too many people are missing in the recommended vaccine.
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Some GPs treat more complicated patients
Many of these differences reflect the fact that GP sees different types of patients.
Our study shows that older people who are not good at English are up to 15% of the likelihood of being vaccinated after taking into account other factors. And the problem seems to be getting worse.
In May 2024, people over 75 years of age dropped to 36%in May 2024, but the ratio was much lower for those who did not speak English, and 15%for those who speak English at home.
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Considering these results, it is not surprising that more patients have been vaccinated in English in English. For GPs with the lowest vaccination rate, one quarter of the patient is not good at English. GPS with the highest vaccination rate is only 1%.
Low GPs with vaccinations have less people living in rural areas, they are not going to go to college, they can’t regularly access GP, and reduce the possibility of being vaccinated.
Many of these barriers to vaccinations are difficult to overcome GP. They point to health systems that go beyond vaccination and the structural problems of our society.
But GPS is also a key part of the puzzle. no way strong suggestion In the GP, you can make a big difference in whether the patient is vaccinated. Almost everything The elderly visit the GP every year. Some GPs have room for improvement.
However, GPS, which sees similar patients, may have a very different vaccination rate.
We compared GPSs that are likely to be vaccinated by a variety of factors, including health, wealth and cultural backgrounds.
Some of the GPs, the lowest likely to be vaccinated by the patient, were vaccinated less than 40% of the patients, and more than 70% of other people in the group.
Among the GPSs with little barriers to vaccination, there were also various proportions of patients who were vaccinated.
In the neighborhood, GP patient vaccination rates vary. For example, Sydney’s Bankstown was seven times the speed of Covid vaccination and an 18 -fold difference in pneumococcal vaccination.
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Not everything about the clinic and the patient can be measured in the data, and there will be plenty of reasons for some of these differences.
However, the result suggests that some GPs will defeat the probability of overcoming the barriers of patients who are vaccinated and other GPs can do more. It must trigger the concentrated effort in places where the vaccination rate is low.
What should the government do?
This is a comprehensive national reform agenda It was necessary to increase adult vaccination. This includes a clear guideline, a national advertising campaign, a customized regional program that approaches the community with a very low level of vaccination.
However, based on the big difference in the GPS’s patient vaccination rate, Australia needs a plan among three that helps GPS helps to increase the old Australian vaccination rate.
First, the method of raising funds for general practices must be checked, and the patient must provide more money to the GPS faced in a higher barrier to vaccination. Today, clinics with poor, painful, and English tend to be less funded. They have to get more, so you can spend more time with the patient to explain and promote vaccinations.
Second, GPS needs to provide data, so it is easy to see how it compares with patients with similar vaccinations and GPS.
Third, the primary health network, which is responsible for improving the primary care in the area, should provide the help for a low vaccination rates. This may include sharing information about the best practices that operate in similar clinics with high vaccination sessions and high vaccination rates.
In addition, the pharmacy plays an important role in promoting and providing vaccines, so the government should provide data and show how to compare their proportions with other pharmacies in the area and how to absorb vaccinations.
These measures will go a long way to better protect the most vulnerable people in our society. The government has a better data for who is missing and other types of health care.
They should not aim to have the best opportunity to be protected from the disease where you live, what is the background, or in any GP or pharmacy.
