Annual Hospitalisations and Deaths from Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Matthew Hooton made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Matthew Hooton
Dear Ministry of Health
This OIA request concerns the following vaccine-preventable diseases:
Diphtheria
Haemophilus influenzae type b
Hepatitis B
Human papillomavirus
Influenza
Measels
Mumps
Pertussis
Pneumococcal
Polio
Rotavirus
Rubella
Tetanus
Varicella
Zoster
For each of these diseases, please provide the generally accepted global mortality rate, from WHO or other data held by the Ministry.
For each of these diseases, please also provide the following information held by the Ministry for 2018 or the latest available pre-Covid calendar year:
The number of cases in New Zealand
The number of hospitalisations in New Zealand
The number of deaths in New Zealand
The percentage of people in New Zealand immunised
It may be easiest to provide this data in table form.
Thank you for your assistance.
Yours sincerely
Matthew Hooton
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Kia ora Matthew,
Thank you for your request for official information received on 01 July
2021 for:
"This OIA request concerns the following vaccine-preventable diseases:
Diphtheria
Haemophilus influenzae type b
Hepatitis B
Human papillomavirus
Influenza
Measels
Mumps
Pertussis
Pneumococcal
Polio
Rotavirus
Rubella
Tetanus
Varicella
Zoster
For each of these diseases, please provide the generally accepted global
mortality rate, from WHO or other data held by the Ministry.
For each of these diseases, please also provide the following information
held by the Ministry for 2018 or the latest available pre-Covid calendar
year:
The number of cases in New Zealand
The number of hospitalisations in New Zealand
The number of deaths in New Zealand
The percentage of people in New Zealand immunised
It may be easiest to provide this data in table form.”
You also made a media query on 30 June 2021 for:
“Could the Ministry of Health please confirm it holds the data I seek to
populate the attached table? Could it please populate it? (I am
suggesting 2018 data, but the latest available pre-Covid year for which
public data is available would suffice.) Alternatively, could the Ministry
please point to data tables on the internet that they would
consider authoritative that will have all the information I seek.”
We will combine these two requests and the Ministry's reference number for
your request is: H202107943.
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 28 July 2021 , being 20
working days after the day your request was received.
If we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we
will notify you of an extension of that time frame.
If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.
Ngâ mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
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Kia ora Matthew,
Thank you for your request for official information, received on 30 June
2021 for:
" This OIA request concerns the following vaccine-preventable diseases:
Diphtheria
Haemophilus influenzae type b
Hepatitis B
Human papillomavirus
Influenza
Measles
Mumps
Pertussis
Pneumococcal
Polio
Rotavirus
Rubella
Tetanus
Varicella
Zoster
For each of these diseases, please provide the generally accepted global
mortality rate, from WHO or other data held by the Ministry.
For each of these diseases, please also provide the following information
held by the Ministry for 2018 or the latest available pre-Covid calendar
year:
The number of cases in New Zealand
The number of hospitalisations in New Zealand The number of deaths in New
Zealand The percentage of people in New Zealand immunised"
We are contacting you in accordance with section 18B of the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act) as your request, as it is currently worded,
is for a very large volume of information. Your request may be refused
under section 18(f) of the Act as the information requested cannot be made
available without substantial collation or research.
If it is possible for you to narrow the scope of your request by selecting
a shorter time frame or specifying a specific disease, we may be able to
provide you with information.
Please respond by 12 July 2021 so that we can consider your refinement in
our response to your request.
We look forward to receiving your response.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [1][email address]
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From: Matthew Hooton
Dear OIA Requests,
I have received your communication. My request is not for a very large volume of information. It is for very specific information for a single year which should be readily available to policy-makers, analysts, scholars, the media and the wider public.
Please supply it as required by the law.
Yours sincerely,
Matthew Hooton
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Kia ora,
Please find attached a response to your official information act request.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [1][email address]
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A lot of this is already public:
Hospital discharge data: https://www.health.govt.nz/nz-health-sta...
Mortality data: https://www.health.govt.nz/nz-health-sta...
Immunisation coverage:https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/prev...
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