Economics of employer-sponsored workplace vaccination to prevent pandemic and seasonal influenza

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 5952-5959

  Lee, Bruce Y ^a,b,c   Bailey, Rachel R ^a   Wiringa, Ann E ^a   Afriyie, Abena ^a   Wateska, Angela R ^a   Smith, Kenneth J ^b   Zimmerman, Richard K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Influenza; Vaccination; Workplace

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; WORKPLACE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECONOMICS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; VACCINATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, ECONOMIC; VACCINATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77955511058     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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