Overcoming healthcare workers’ vaccine refusal – Competition between egoism and altruism

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 48, 2014, Pages

  Betsch, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CARE AND CARING; DECISION MAKING; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EDUCATION; EGO; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; NARCOLEPSY; PERCEPTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84919724933     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.48.20979     Document Type: Article

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