Overcoming healthcare workers’ vaccine refusal – competition between egoism and altruism
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Overcoming healthcare workers vaccine refusal--competition between egoism and altruism.
Vaccination reduces the risk of becoming infected with and transmitting pathogens. The role of healthcare workers (HCWs) in controlling and limiting nosocomial infections has been stressed repeatedly. This has also been recognised at a political level, leading the European Council of Ministers in 2009 to encourage coverage of 75% seasonal influenza vaccine in HCWs. Although there are policies, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eurosurveillance
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.48.20979