Attitudes of the medical students from two Czech universities to pandemic flu a (H1N1) 2009 and to influenza vaccination

Central European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 215-218

  Tomášková, Hana ^a,b   Boháčová, Sylva ^a   Šlachtová, Hana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^b Public Health Institute Ostrava   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Influenza; Risk perception; Students; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870824038     PISSN: 12107778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a3734     Document Type: Article

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