Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in child vaccination: Results from Ireland

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 27, 2014, Pages 3438-3444

  Doherty, Edel ^a   Walsh, Brendan ^a   O'Neill, Ciaran ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Childhood vaccination; Concentration index; Inequalities; Ireland

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHILDHOOD VACCINATION; DISABILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; IRELAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SMOKE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNEMPLOYMENT; VACCINATION; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; INFANT; MIGRANT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; IRELAND; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84901024767     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.03.084     Document Type: Article

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