Do they accept compulsory vaccination?. Awareness, attitudes and behaviour of hospital health care workers following a new vaccination directive

Vaccine

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 3022-3025

  Seale, Holly ^a   Leask, Julie ^b   Raina MacIntyre, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health care worker; Hospitals; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION;

EID: 67349117662     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.03.038     Document Type: Article

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