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Factors Associated With Parental Decision Making And Childhood Vaccination, Zuwen Qiu-Shultz
Factors Associated With Parental Decision Making And Childhood Vaccination, Zuwen Qiu-Shultz
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In order to better understand factors affecting immunization status, logistic regression was used to assess the association of various socio-demographic factors and whether parents would have their child immunized if not a state mandate. Factors included in the study were race, household income, number of children in the household, number of adults in the household, if the child had a primary provider, if the child had a health check-up in the last twelve months, and medical insurance status of the child. The combined Nevada Kindergarten Health Survey Result of 2009-2010 (Year Two) and 2010-2011 (Year Three) conducted by the Nevada …