Improving influenza vaccination rates of high-risk inner-city children over 2 intervention years

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 534-540

  Zimmerman, Richard K ^a,b   Hoberman, Alejandro ^a   Nowalk, Mary Patricia ^a   Lin, Chyongchiou J ^a,b   Greenberg, David P ^a   Weinberg, Stuart T ^c   Feng, Shou Ko ^b   Fox, Dwight E ^a  

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

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

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services research; Immunizations in infancy and childhood; Infectious diseases; Influenza vaccines

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; RACE DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 33845509276     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.612     Document Type: Article

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