Factors affecting the compliance of the antenatal hepatitis B screening programme in Italy

Vaccine

Volumn 21, Issue 11-12, 2003, Pages 1246-1249

  Stroffolini, Tommaso ^a,b   Bianco, Elvira ^a   Szklo, Andrè ^a   Bernacchia, Rossana ^a   Bove, Crescenzo ^c   Colucci, Mario ^d   Coppola, Rosa Cristina ^e   D'Argenio, Paolo ^f   Lopalco, Pierluigi ^g   Parlato, Antonino ^h   Ragni, Pietro ⁱ   Simonetti, Andrea ^h   Zotti, Carla ^j   Mele, Alfonso ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b San Giacomo Hospital   (Italy)

^c Epidemiology Unit   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO E RUGGI D ARAGONA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^f Epidemiology Unit   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^h Ctro di Docum Per la Salute   (Italy)

ⁱ Health District of Naples   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

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Author keywords

Effectiveness; HBV; Perinatal transmission

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIRTH; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; ITALY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOUTH AMERICA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AMERICAS; ASIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE, EASTERN; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037424129     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(02)00439-5     Document Type: Article

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