Racial and ethnic disparities in influenza vaccinations among community pharmacy patients and non-community pharmacy respondents

Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 126-140

  Wang, Junling ^a   Munshi, Kiraat D ^a   Hong, Song Hee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community pharmacy; Immunization; Influenza vaccinations; Pharmacists; Racial ethnic disparities

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA VACCINATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHARMACIST; PHARMACY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RACIAL ETHNIC DISPARITIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VERY ELDERLY;

COMMUNITY PHARMACY; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA VACCINATIONS; PHARMACISTS; RACIAL ETHNIC DISPARITIES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY PHARMACY SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHARMACISTS; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84888867251     PISSN: 15517411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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