'It's just the normal thing to do': Exploring parental decision-making about the 'five-in-one' vaccine

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 42, 2007, Pages 7399-7409

  Tickner, Sarah ^a   Leman, Patrick J ^a   Woodcock, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Immunisation; Parents

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DIPHTHERIA; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PERTUSSIS; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TETANUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; INFANT; MALE; PARENTS; TRUST; VACCINATION; VACCINES, COMBINED; VACCINES, CONJUGATE;

EID: 34748845855     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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