Influenza vaccination among primary healthcare workers

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 2482-2489

  Abramson, Zvi Howard ^a,b   Levi, Orit ^a  

^a CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; Influenza vaccination; Media scare; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; TREATMENT PLANNING; VACCINATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; VACCINATION;

EID: 43049088076     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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