Personal belief exemptions from school vaccination requirements

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 275-292

  Diekema, Douglas S ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunization; Medical exemptions; Philosophical exemptions; Religious exemptions; Vaccine mandates

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS VACCINE; SMALLPOX VACCINE;

COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COURT; DRUG INDUSTRY; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; JURISPRUDENCE; KINDERGARTEN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MORBIDITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL HEALTH EDUCATION; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HERD IMMUNITY; INCIDENCE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIGION; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CULTURE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HERD; INCIDENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIGION; SCHOOLS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

EID: 84897057435     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-032013-182452     Document Type: Conference Paper

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