Influenza vaccination of Victorian healthcare workers: Will a higher target increase vaccine uptake?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 490-

  Wang, David ^a,b   Worth, Leon ^a   Bull, Ann ^a   Bennett, Noleen ^a   Richards, Michael ^a  

^a PETER DOHERTY INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION AND IMMUNITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; VACCINE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84908159480     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: 17536405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1753-6405.12260     Document Type: Letter

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