A cross-sectional study of susceptibility to vaccine-preventable diseases among prison entrants in New South Wales

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 198, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 376-379

  Larney, Sarah ^a   Monkley, Denise L ^a   Indig, Devon ^a,b   Hampton, Stephen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b JUSTICE HEALTH AND FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VACCINE;

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MUMPS; PREVALENCE; PRISON; RUBELLA; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; VIRUS DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876204415     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.11110     Document Type: Article

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