Attitudes towards vaccination: Users of complementary and alternative medicine versus non-users

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 138, Issue 47-48, 2008, Pages 713-718

  Zuzak, Tycho Jan ^a   Zuzak Siegrist, Isabelle ^a   Rist, Lukas ^b   Staubli, Georg ^a   Simões Wüst, Ana Paula ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Research Department of Paracelsus Hospital Richterswil   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine; Herbal drugs; Homeopathy; Paediatric emergency medicine; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATHY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCOME; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWITZERLAND; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; VACCINATION;

EID: 57849137976     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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