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The politics of immunization in public
health.
McCombie SC.
Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
19104.
The role of socio-political and psychological factors in the decision to
immunize is explored using data collected in a county health department in the
United States. Decisions regarding the administration of post-exposure
immunizations for hepatitis A and rabies are described, and a tendency toward
unnecessary use noted. At times these interventions function more to reduce the
anxiety of a patient or clinician than they do to prevent an infection. These
findings may have implications for analyses of clinical decision making that
involve other types of interventions.
PMID: 2705017 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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