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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Influenza--Vaccination"”.
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Supply chain coordination and influenza vaccination
Annual influenza outbreaks incur great expenses in both human and monetary terms, and billions of dollars are being allocated for influenza pandemic preparedness in an attempt to avert even greater potential losses. Vaccination is a primary weapon for fighting influenza outbreaks. The influenza …
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Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates Through Nursing Journal Clubs
… transplant patients. To address the barriers to vaccination, specifically patients’ fear of adverse effects, nursing journal clubs (NJC) were implemented on the unit to educate nurses about the current research on flu vaccination for this patient population. As the facilitator, the CNL encouraged …
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Improving pediatric influenza vaccination rates in the primary care setting
… a barrier to pediatric health. Current pediatric vaccination rates nationwide fall below the national recommendations. Understanding contributors to individualized hesitancy while employing motivational interviewing (MI) techniques can reduce caregiver hesitancy, improve influenza vaccination …
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Evaluating the Target-Population Recommendations for Influenza Vaccination: Evidence and Ethics
The influenza virus infects between 5 and 10 percent of the population each year, resulting in acute respiratory illness ranging from subclinical to severe; during a pandemic, 50 percent of the population can easily be infected. Influenza infection creates serious social, economic, and public …
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Addressing Awareness, Attitudes and Behavior of University Students Towards Influenza Vaccination
… and behavior of college students regarding influenza vaccination. Acute respiratory illness, mainly influenza and pneumonia, is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. Colleges and universities are places where influenza may spread easily due to large numbers of people …
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A mixed methods study exploring early career doctors’ and medical students’ seasonal influenza vaccination
Seasonal influenza is an acute, contagious respiratory infection that causes considerable morbidity and mortality each year. The Chief Medical Officer for England recommends that healthcare workers have a seasonal influenza vaccination in an attempt to protect both patients and NHS staff. Despite …
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A Multi-Level Examination of Influenza Vaccination Disparities from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
<p>Vaccinations were noted as the top public health achievement in the 20th century (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1999). However, not everyone is getting vaccinated. Taking a sociological approach this study examined the extent to which African Americans, American Indian/Alaska …
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Predictors of North Dakota and South Dakota Nurses' Decisions to Receive Influenza Vaccinations
… the predictors of nurses' decisions to receive influenza vaccinations. The Triandis model of interpersonal behavior (1977) was used to construct an instrument called the Registered Nurses Influenza Vaccination Questionnaire (RNIVQ).A mail survey approach was used to distribute the RNIVQ to 201 …
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Systems analysis of vaccination in the United States: Socio-behavioral dynamics, sentiment, effectiveness and efficiency
… examines the socio-behavioral determinants of vaccination and their impacts on public health, using a systems approach that emphasizes the interface between population health research, policy, and practice. First, we identify the facilitators and barriers of parental attitudes and beliefs …
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Characterization of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Essential Workforce Members of a Large Urban Hospital in Los Angeles, CA
… and a history of not or sometimes receiving Influenza vaccination (OR = 4.39; (CI 2.98–6.48), p ≤ 0.001). Conclusions: Vaccine hesitancy was associated with unique factors. These factors are female gender, identifying as African American or LatinX, and a history of not or sometimes receiving …
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Assessment of the autonomic nervous system through the study of cardiovascular autonomic reflexes and their association with inflammation in three clinical settings.
… studies in the following conditions: a. Influenza vaccination b. Reduction in oesophageal inflammation c. Reduction in weight The aim of the first study was to assess the link between inflammation resulting from the influenza vaccination and the associated changes on heart rate …
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Risks and health consequences of forgoing, delaying, or having trouble accessing needed health care among Medicare beneficiaries
… health care was prognostic of receiving an influenza vaccination in the following year. This study followed the 2006-cohort and 2007-cohort from the 2007 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to determine if receipt of the influenza vaccination in 2008 was associated with forgoing, delaying, …
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Συγχρονική μελέτη για την αξιολόγηση των γνώσεων και των στάσεων των φοιτητών Ιατρικής σχετικά με το εμβόλιο της γρίπης και πιθανοί παράγοντες που τις επηρεάζουν / Assesment of medical students' knowledge and attitudes towards influenza vaccination
Εισαγωγή: Η εποχική γρίπη παραμένει ένα σημαντικό ζήτημα δημόσιας υγείας και ο ετήσιος εμβολιασμός αποτελεί ένα αποτελεσματικό προληπτικό μέτρο. Τα ποσοστά εμβολιασμού μεταξύ των ιατρών στην Ελλάδα παραμένουν χαμηλά, παρά τις εθνικές και διεθνείς συστάσεις. Οι φοιτητές ιατρικής αποτελούν το …
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Behavioural adjuvants to vaccination
… eccentric exercise on the immune response to vaccination in young humans. Study one investigated whether the efficacy of the eccentric exercise intervention was affected by manipulating the timings of exercise prior to influenza vaccination. Three exercise groups were vaccinated immediately, 6 …
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Treatment of arthritis with tumour necrosis factor antagonists. Clinical, immunological and biochemical aspects
… of the immune response to pneumococcal or influenza vaccination. Patients treated with TNF antagonists and controls showed similar responses to pneumococcal vaccine, whereas methotrexate treated patients showed reduced response to this vaccine regardless of concomitant treatment with TNF …
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Predicting the Antigenic Evolution of Influenza Viruses with Application to Vaccination Strategy
Seasonal influenza viruses cause substantial worldwide mortality and morbidity every year. The evolution of these viruses comprise unique systems for studying natural evolutionary processes in real-time. Host immune systems recognise pathogens based on binding affinities between host antibodies and …
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Determination of functionally distinct subsets of human tonsillar and blood T follicular helper (Tfh) cells.
… determined the type of Tfh responses induced by influenza vaccination in healthy adults. First, we identified a Tfh subset localized outside germinal centers (GCs) in human tonsils. This subset expressed low-levels of CXCR5 and ICOS (CXCR5loICOSlo) and helped naïve B cells more efficiently than …
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Determination of functionally distinct subsets of human tonsillar and blood T follicular helper (Tfh) cells.
… determined the type of Tfh responses induced by influenza vaccination in healthy adults. First, we identified a Tfh subset localized outside germinal centers (GCs) in human tonsils. This subset expressed low-levels of CXCR5 and ICOS (CXCR5loICOSlo) and helped naïve B cells more efficiently than …
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Immune Response in Young Men to the 2014/15 Seasonal Influenza Vaccine
… the impact of adiposity and physical activity on influenza vaccination. The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the role of adiposity and physical activity in the immune response of males aged 18-35 to the 2014/2015 seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine. Blood was drawn pre and four …
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