Development and preliminary data on the use of a mobile app specifically designed to increase community awareness of invasive pneumococcal disease and its prevention

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1080-1084

  Panatto, Donatella ^a   Domnich, Alexander ^a   Gasparini, Roberto ^a   Bonanni, Paolo ^b   Icardi, Giancarlo ^a   Amicizia, Daniela ^a   Arata, Lucia ^a   Bragazzi, Nicola Luigi ^a   Signori, Alessio ^a   Landa, Paolo ^a   Bechini, Angela ^b   Boccalini, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

application software; community awareness; e health; invasive; mobile app; pneumococcal disease; pneumococcus; prevention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SMARTPHONE; VACCINATION; WORKSHOP; YOUNG ADULT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RISK FACTOR; TELEMEDICINE;

HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; RISK FACTORS; TELEMEDICINE; VACCINATION;

EID: 84961213918     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2015.1114196     Document Type: Article

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