Will First-Responders Show Up for Work During a Pandemic? Lessons From a Smallpox Vaccination Survey of Paramedics

Disaster Management and Response

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 45-48

  Mackler, Niklas ^a   Wilkerson, William ^a   Cinti, Sandro ^a  

^a Nanocerox Inc Ann Arbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SMALLPOX; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOTERRORISM; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FAMILY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMALLPOX; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

EID: 34249341398     PISSN: 15402487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dmr.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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