Facebook recruitment of vaccine-hesitant Canadian parents: Cross-sectional study

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Tustin, Jordan Lee ^a,b   Crowcroft, Natasha Sarah ^b,c,d   Gesink, Dionne ^b   Johnson, Ian ^b,c   Keelan, Jennifer ^e   Lachapelle, Barbara ^f  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies   (Canada)

^f TORONTO PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Immunization; Parents; Social media; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 85037569355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.6870     Document Type: Article

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