The impact of the medicare influenza demonstration project on inlfuenza vaccination in a county in Massachusetts, 1988-1992

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 199-209

  Etkind, Paul ^b   Simon, Margo ^b   Shannon, Stephen ^b   Bottum, Carolyn ^b   Goldstein, Robert ^b   Werner, Barbara ^a,b   Cheney, Sally ^b  

^a State Laboratory Institute

^b MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MEDICARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICARE PART B; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029968593     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01557999     Document Type: Article

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