Risk factors associated with parents claiming personal-belief exemptions to school immunization requirements: Community and other influences on more skeptical parents in Oregon, 2006

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1132-1142

  Gaudino, James A ^a,b   Robison, Steve ^a  

^a OREGON DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti vaccine; Immunization; Immunization exemptions; Personal belief exemptions; Religious exemptions; Vaccine concerned; Vaccine hesitant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHIROPRACTIC; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY LIVING; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OREGON; PARENTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 84856361485     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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