Potential effects of California's new vaccine exemption law on the prevalence and clustering of exemptions

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Jones, Malia ^a   Buttenheim, Alison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LEGAL ASPECT; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; PREVALENCE; SCHOOLS; VACCINES;

EID: 84906077763     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302065     Document Type: Article

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