Demand for pneumococcal vaccination under subsidy program for the elderly in Japan

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kondo, Masahide ^a   Yamamura, Mariko ^b   Hoshi, Shu Ling ^a   Okubo, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Demand; Elderly; Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV); Price elasticity; Public relations; Subsidy; Vaccination program

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; JAPAN; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

AGED; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; JAPAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84866006049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-313     Document Type: Article

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