Emerging and continuing trends in vaccine opposition website content

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1874-1880

  Bean, Sandra J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti vaccine websites; Content analysis; Internet; Vaccine opposition

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEARCH ENGINE; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; TREND STUDY; VACCINATION; WEB BROWSER;

HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 79951726134     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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