Risks and benefits of the single versus the triple MMR vaccine: How can health professionals reassure parents?

Journal of The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 84-86

  McGreevy, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health professionals; Measles; Mumps and rubella; Risks; Single vaccination; Triple vaccination

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; MUMPS VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; RUBELLA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROHN DISEASE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENTERITIS; ENTEROCOLITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARENT; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TETANUS; VACCINATION; VIRUS MENINGITIS;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; PARENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 16844376380     PISSN: 14664240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146642400512500212     Document Type: Article

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