Knowledge, attitudes, experience and behaviour of frontline health care workers during the early phase of 2009 influenza A(HlNl) pandemic, birmingham, UK

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 26-30

  Edeghere, Obaghe ^a   Fowler, Tom ^a,b   Wilson, Fay ^c   Caspa, Richard ^a   Raichand, Smitri ^a   Kara, Edna ^a   Rampling, Sumi Janmohamed ^a   Olowokure, Babatunde ^a,d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Birmingham and District General Practitioner Emergency Room ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d Caribbean Institute of Public Health   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Health care workers knowledge and attitudes; Health services research; Occupational health; Pandemic influenza; Public health

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ARTICLE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROPHYLAXIS; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION; WORK EXPERIENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUT-OF-HOURS CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDS; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84927778491     PISSN: 13558196     EISSN: 17581060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1355819614554243     Document Type: Article

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