Breaking down the monolith: Understanding flu vaccine uptake among African Americans

• Main Authors: Sandra Crouse Quinn (Author), Amelia Jamison (Author), Ji An (Author), Vicki S. Freimuth (Author), Gregory R. Hancock (Author), Donald Musa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Black adults are significantly less likely to be immunized for seasonal influenza when compared to Whites. This persistent disparity contributes to increased influenza-related morbidity and mortality in the African American population. Most scholarship on vaccine disparities has compared Whites and...