Cross-sectional survey of older peoples' views related to influenza vaccine uptake

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mangtani, Punam ^a   Breeze, Elizabeth ^b   Stirling, Sue ^a   Hanciles, Smita ^a   Kovats, Sari ^a   Fletcher, Astrid ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33750514987     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-249     Document Type: Article

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