Storytelling in the context of vaccine refusal: A strategy to improve communication and immunisation

Medical Humanities

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 31-35

  Cawkwell, Philip B ^a   Oshinsky, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEASLES; PARENT; POLIOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARDS; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINATION REFUSAL; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEASLES; NARRATION; PARENTS; POLIOMYELITIS; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VACCINATION REFUSAL;

EID: 84959270457     PISSN: 1468215X     EISSN: 14734265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medhum-2015-010761     Document Type: Article

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