Prevalence of influenza vaccination and correlates of intention to be vaccinated among Hong Kong Chinese

Public Health Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 506-515

  Mok, Esther ^a   Yeung, Shuk Hing ^b   Chan, Moon Fai ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Department of Health ^*  (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Barriers; Facilitators; Health belief model; Influenza vaccination; PRECEDE model

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INTENTION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 33750714048     PISSN: 07371209     EISSN: 15251446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1446.2006.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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