“Our kids are our future”: Barriers and facilitators to vaccine uptake and timeliness among Aboriginal children younger than five years in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia

• Carla Puca ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carla.puca@thekids.org.au

  Affiliation Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2537-6874

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• Paige Wood-Kenney,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Naomi Nelson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Boorloo (Perth) Public Health Unit, North Metropolitan Health Service, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Jordan Hansen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation South Coastal Babbingur Mia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Judy Mathews,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Erin van der Helder,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Justin Kickett,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Boorloo Community Member, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Melanie Robinson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Child and Adolescent Health Service, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Katie Attwell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Anastasia Phillips,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Boorloo (Perth) Public Health Unit, North Metropolitan Health Service, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Valerie Swift,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Allied Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Christopher C. Blyth ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Department of Microbiology, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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• Samantha J. Carlson

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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