Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · Nov 2007
The impact of socioeconomic level on influenza vaccination among Italian adults and elderly: a cross-sectional study.
To assess the predictive factors of influenza vaccination among Italian adults, focusing on socioeconomic differences. ⋯ Socioeconomic inequalities in influenza vaccine uptake were present among the adults but not among the elderly. Because in Italy the National Health Service provides influenza vaccination to the elderly free of charge, it is possible that this policy attenuated the socioeconomic differential.