Paternal education status significantly influences infants measles vaccination uptake, independent of maternal education status

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rammohan, Anu ^a   Awofeso, Niyi ^a,b   Fernandez, Renae C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MOTHER; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

AFRICA; ASIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHERS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MOTHERS; PARENTS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 84860630881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-336     Document Type: Article

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