Resistance to vaccination: The attitudes and practices of primary healthcare workers confronting the H1N1 pandemic

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 8120-8124

  Hidiroglu, Seyhan ^a   Ay, Pinar ^a   Topuzoglu, Ahmet ^a   Kalafat, Cem ^a   Karavus, Melda ^a  

^a MARMARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; Pandemic H1N1; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPOWERMENT; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDWIFE; NURSE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PANDEMICS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; TURKEY; VACCINATION;

EID: 78649659757     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.09.104     Document Type: Article

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