Attitudes towards vaccination against seasonal influenza of health-care workers in primary health-care settings in Greece

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 37, 2010, Pages 5931-5933

  Dedoukou, Xanthi ^a   Nikolopoulos, Georgios ^a   Maragos, Antonios ^a   Giannoulidou, Sophia ^a   Maltezou, Helena C ^a  

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

Author keywords

Attitudes; Health care workers; Primary health care settings; Seasonal influenza; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG EFFICACY; GREECE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; CROSS INFECTION; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; GREECE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

EID: 77955516797     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.06.108     Document Type: Article

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