Religious exception for vaccination or religious excuses for avoiding vaccination

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 516-521

  Pelčić, Gordana ^a,b   Karačić, Silvana ^c   Mikirtichan, Galina L ^d   Kubar, Olga I ^e   Leavitt, Frank J ^f   Tai, Michael Cheng Tek ^g   Morishita, Naoki ^h   Vuletić, Suzana ⁱ   Tomašević, Luka ^j  

^a Primary Care Center Primorsko Goranska County   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c Hotel Sveti Kri   (Croatia)

^d SAINT PETERSBURG STATE PEDIATRIC MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e ST PETERSBURG PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f Kushiro International Summer School and Conference in Bioethics   (Japan)

^g CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

ⁱ JOSIP JURAJ STROSSMAYER UNIVERSITY OF OSIJEK   (Croatia)

^j Catholic Faculty of Theology   (Croatia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDDHIST; CATHOLICISM; CONFUCIANISM; HUMAN; ISLAM; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); JEW; PROTESTANT; RELIGION; VACCINATION;

EID: 84998698722     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2016.57.516     Document Type: Article

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