Negative trends from 2008/9 to 2011/12 seasons in influenza vaccination coverages among high risk subjects and health care workers in Spain

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 350-354

  Jiménez García, Rodrigo ^a   Rodríguez Rieiro, Cristina ^a   Hernandez Barrera, Valentín ^a   Carrasco Garrido, Pilar ^a   López de Andres, Ana ^a   Esteban Vasallo, María D ^b   Domínguez Berjón, Maria Felicitas ^b   Astray Mochales, Jenaro ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b Ministry of Health Community of Madrid ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Coverage; Influenza; Public health policy; Trends; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SELF REPORT; SENESCENCE; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; TREND STUDY;

COVERAGE; INFLUENZA; PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY; TRENDS; VACCINES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; SPAIN; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890991204     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.11.040     Document Type: Article

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