How can you improve vaccination rates among older African Americans?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 925-929

  Wray, Ricardo J ^a   Jupka, Keri ^a   Ross, Wilhelmina ^a   Dotson, Delores ^a   Whitworth, Amanda R ^a   Jacobsen, Heather ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PUBLIC OPINION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VACCINATION;

EID: 36148968809     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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