Exposure of California kindergartners to students with personal belief exemptions from mandated school entry vaccinations

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Buttenheim, Alison ^a   Jones, Malia ^b   Baras, Yelena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEGAL ASPECT; PHILOSOPHY; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

CALIFORNIA; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PREVALENCE; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84864354929     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300821     Document Type: Article

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