Pandemic influenza A/H1N1 vaccination coverage, adverse reactions, and reasons for vaccine refusal among medical students in Brazil;Cobertura vacinal para a influenza A/H1N1, reações adversas e motivos para a não aceitação da vacina entre estudantes de medicina no Brasil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 77-82

  de Souza, Eduardo Pernambuco ^a   Teixeira, Marcelo de Souza ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Influenza A H1N1; Medical students; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EXHAUSTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INJECTION PAIN; LARYNGITIS; LEG PAIN; MALAISE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA; SYNCOPE; TIME MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; PANDEMICS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 84859740715     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652012000200004     Document Type: Article

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