Midwife attitudes: An important determinant of maternal postpartum pertussis booster vaccination

Vaccine

Volumn 29, Issue 34, 2011, Pages 5591-5594

  Cooper Robbins, Spring Chenoa ^a   Leask, Julie ^a,b   Hayles, Elizabeth Helen ^c   Sinn, John K H ^a,c,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Booster; Maternity ward; Midwives; Pertussis; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HEALTH BELIEF MODEL; HUMAN; MATERNITY WARD; MIDWIFE ATTITUDE; PERTUSSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; VACCINATION; WORKSHOP;

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; MIDWIFERY; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 79960564573     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.05.049     Document Type: Article

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