Acceptance of a post-partum influenza vaccination (cocooning) strategy for neonates in Greece

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 5871-5874

  Maltezou, Helena C ^a   Kalogriopoulou, Kleopatra ^b   Pergialiotis, Vasileios ^b   Siahanidou, Tania ^b   Skiathitou, Anna V ^b   Katerelos, Panos ^a   Goumalatsos, Nikolaos ^b   Kostis, Evangelos ^b   Antsaklis, Aristides ^b   Theodoridou, Maria ^b  

^a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Cocooning; Household members; Influenza; Mothers; Post partum; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; FAMILY; FEMALE; GREECE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; MATERNITY WARD; MOTHER; NEWBORN PERIOD; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; SEASON; TREATMENT REFUSAL; VACCINATION;

ADULT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; PARENTS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84864824578     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.06.082     Document Type: Article

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