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Intersectional Immunity? Examining How Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation Combine to Shape Influenza Vaccination Among US Adults
Influenza vaccination is a critical preventive healthcare behavior designed to prevent spread of seasonal flu. This paper contributes to existing...
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Why are influenza vaccination coverage rates still too low among health care workers in a tertiary care children’s hospital in Turkey?
Annual influenza vaccination offers the best means to control and prevent influenza-associated illnesses. Vaccination of health care workers (HCWs)...
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On Pandemic Planning and the Frontline Workers in Nigeria
The severe casualties associated with the influenza pandemics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have led many countries of the...
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Correction to: Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016
First, we use Lexis surfaces based on Serfling models to highlight influenza mortality patterns as well as to identify lingering effects of...
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Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016
This study examines the roles of age, period, and cohort in influenza mortality trends over the years 1959–2016 in the United States. First, we use...
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Reading for Pandemic: Viral Modernism by Elizabeth Outka, New York: Columbia University Press, 2020
COVID-19, like previous outbreaks of infectious disease at the turn of the twenty-first century, has reawakened interest in the 1918–1919 Spanish...
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Pregnancy and Vaccination: The Precautionary Principle and Parenting Culture in Covid Times
Since late 2020, vaccination has been central to global experience, and the experience of it—as medical intervention, political project, and focus...
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Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19: How American Craft Breweries Responded
The appearance and subsequent diffusion of COVID-19 forced many bars and restaurants across the United States to close their doors and discontinue...
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Virus Infections in Older People
Older people are more prone to viral infections, and often have worse outcomes. This was well demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, where a...
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The Long-Lasting Influenza: The Impact of Fetal Stress During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Socioeconomic Attainment and Health in Sweden, 1968–2012
The 1918 influenza pandemic had not only a massive instant death toll but also lasting effects on its survivors. Several studies have shown that...
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Paid sick leave policy impacts on health and care utilization in the United States: why policy design matters
The link between policy design choices and health is an important, yet understudied area of public health research. I investigate the impact of the...
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Effect of closure of live poultry markets in China on prevention and control of human infection with H7N9 avian influenza: a case study of four cities in Jiangsu Province
As of August 2017, China had encountered five seasonal epidemics of H7N9 avian influenza. To prevent people from contracting H7N9 avian influenza,...
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Health Perceptions and Vaccination Complications in People Over 65 Years of Age Who Have Received the Covid-19 Vaccine; A Descriptive Study
PurposeIndividuals above the age of 65 are the first to be vaccinated. In this study, it was aimed to determine the health perceptions and vaccine...
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Methods for disentangling period and cohort changes in mortality risk over the twentieth century: comparing graphical and modelling approaches
This paper explores changes in age-specific mortality risk across periods and cohorts during the twentieth century in the developed world. We use and...
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Religious affiliation and healthcare (non) utilization in China: a nationally representative study
Religion has profound implications for healthcare utilization. Yet, understanding about religion and healthcare utilization remains poorly understood...
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Vaccines for the Elderly
The elderly population is particularly susceptible to infectious diseases because of the declining immune response with age. The risk is even higher...
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Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
Using a cross-sectional online survey we investigated knowledge, attitudes, and risk perception about COVID-19 vaccination and identified factors...
