Low vaccination coverage for seasonal influenza and pneumococcal disease among adults at-risk and health care workers in Ireland, 2013: The key role of GPs in recommending vaccination

Vaccine

Volumn 34, Issue 32, 2016, Pages 3657-3662

  Giese, Coralie ^a,b   Mereckiene, Jolita ^b   Danis, Kostas ^a   O'Donnell, Joan ^b   O'Flanagan, Darina ^b   Cotter, Suzanne ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^b HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

At risk; Elderly; Immunisation; Influenza; Pneumococcal; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; PERCEPTION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VACCINATION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; VACCINATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973532128     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2016.05.028     Document Type: Article

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