Socioeconomic factors play a more important role in childhood vaccination coverage than parental perceptions: a cross-sectional study in Greece

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1861-1869

  Danis, K ^a   Georgakopoulou, T ^b   Stavrou, T ^c   Laggas, D ^a   Panagiotopoulos, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^c Ministry of Health   (Greece)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Greece; Socioeconomic; Vaccination coverage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREECE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 75249087740     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.11.078     Document Type: Article

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