"I hate needles" and other factors impacting on travel vaccine uptake

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Crockett, Maryanne ^a   Keystone, Jay ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A VACCINE;

DECISION MAKING; DRUG COST; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INJECTION SITE; NEEDLE; PAIN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; TRAVEL; VACCINATION;

EID: 17844406644     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7060.2005.12056     Document Type: Review

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