摘要:The Australian Paediatric Sur veillance Unit (APSU) was established in 1993 and is a unit of the Division of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal Australasian College of Physicians. The ac tivities of the APSU are funded in part by the Federal Department of Health and Ageing through the communicable dis-eases program. The APSU is a founding member of the International Network of Paediatric Surveillance Units (INoPSU). INoPSU now has 15 member units who employ a similar methodology