Individual freedoms versus collective responsibility: Immunization decision-making in the face of occasionally competing values

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Salmon, Daniel A ^a,b   Omer, Saad B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33749600437     PISSN: 17427622     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-3-13     Document Type: Review

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