Journal article
Influenza vaccination strategies should target children
- Abstract:
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Strategies to increase influenza vaccination rates have typically targeted healthcare professionals (HCPs) and individuals in various high-risk groups such as the elderly. We argue that they should (instead or as well) focus on increasing vaccination rates in children. Because children suffer higher influenza incidence rates than any other demographic group, and are major drivers of seasonal influenza epidemics, we argue that influenza vaccination strategies that serve to increase uptake rate...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Public Health Ethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 221–234
- Publication date:
- 2017-12-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1754-9981
- ISSN:
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1754-9973
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:736269
- UUID:
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uuid:41fe2eec-4db8-426f-bfe2-fcff37c7ca17
- Local pid:
- pubs:736269
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Savulescu et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. Available online at www.phe.oxfordjournals.org This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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