Impact of physicians' attitude to vaccination on local vaccination coverage for pertussis and measles in Germany

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1009-1016

  Weigel, Martin ^a   Weitmann, Kerstin ^a   Rautmann, Christiane ^a   Schmidt, Judith ^a   Bruns, Roswitha ^a   Hoffmann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEASLES VACCINE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GERMANY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84907656013     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cku013     Document Type: Article

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