Decomposing racial/ethnic disparities in influenza vaccination among the elderly

Vaccine

Volumn 33, Issue 26, 2015, Pages 2997-3002

  Yoo, Byung Kwang ^a   Hasebe, Takuya ^a,c   Szilagyi, Peter G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly population; Influenza vaccination; Non linear Oaxaca Blinder decomposition method; Racial ethnic disparities

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMMUNITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SELF REPORT; VACCINATION; ADULT; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 84930536280     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.03.054     Document Type: Article

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