Vaccination could improve overall health in a high risk population.
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Recommendations to improve targeted vaccination coverage among high-risk adults.
nfluenza, pneumococcal disease, and hepatitis B—three vaccine-preventable diseases—continue to cause significant morbidity and mortality among dults in the United States. Efforts to reduce infection, llness, and death from these diseases depend on ncreasing vaccination coverage in the population, esecially among adults at high risk of infection or omplications. Risk factors for infection or com...
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عنوان ژورنال: Western Journal of Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0093-0415
DOI: 10.1136/ewjm.172.1.21