A survey of attitudes towards paediatric vaccinations amongst Canadian naturopathic students

Vaccine

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 329-334

  Wilson, Kumanan ^a,d   Mills, Ed ^b   Boon, Heather ^a,c   Tomlinson, George ^a   Ritvo, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN COLLEGE OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Immunisation; Naturopathic medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CANADA; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; VACCINATION;

EID: 0345096583     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2003.08.014     Document Type: Article

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