Understanding vaccination resistance: Vaccine search term selection bias and the valence of retrieved information

Vaccine

Volumn 32, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 5776-5780

  Ruiz, Jeanette B ^a   Bell, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Internet search terms; Vaccine resistance; Vaccine websites

Indexed keywords

VACCINE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INTERNET; LITERATURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINE; SELECTION BIAS; STATISTICS; VACCINATION; WEB BROWSER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; JUDGMENT; PARENTS; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SEARCH ENGINE; SELECTION BIAS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84908068535     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.08.042     Document Type: Article

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