LGBT health and vaccinations: Findings from a community health survey of Lexington-Fayette County, Kentucky, USA

Vaccine

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2016, Pages 1909-1914

  Jones, Jeff ^a   Poole, Asheley ^a   Lasley Bibbs, Vivian ^b   Johnson, Mark ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kentucky Department for Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult immunization; Bisexual; Chickenpox; Coverage; Gay; Hepatitis; HPV; Human papillomavirus; Influenza; Kentucky; Lesbian; LGBT; Pneumonia; Prevalence; Shingles; Smallpox; Transgender

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; SMALLPOX VACCINE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CHICKENPOX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSGENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HERPES ZOSTER; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUAL FEMALE; HOMOSEXUAL MALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; LGBT PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSGENDER; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALLPOX; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; KENTUCKY; LESBIANISM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961060632     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.02.054     Document Type: Article

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