Failure to return: Parental, practice, and social factors affecting missed immunization visits for urban children

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 420-427

  Stockwell, Melissa S ^a,b   Irigoyen, Matilde ^c   Andres Martinez, Raquel ^a   Findley, Sally E ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

access to health care; ambulatory care; vaccinations

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FAMILY; FEAR; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MISSED IMMUNIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; LOGISTIC MODELS; PARENTS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84898969491     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922814527497     Document Type: Article

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