Determinants of adult vaccination at inner-city health centers: A descriptive study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nowalk, Mary Patricia ^a,b   Zimmerman, Richard K ^a,b   Tabbarah, Melissa ^a   Raymund, Mahlon ^a   Jewell, Ilene K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; UNEMPLOYMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PENNSYLVANIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 31544432856     PISSN: 14712296     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-7-2     Document Type: Article

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