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- Title
Health Consequences of Religious and Philosophical Exemptions From Immunization Laws.
- Authors
Salmon, Daniel A.; Haber, Michael; Gangarosa, Eugene J.; Phillips, Lynelle; Smith, Natalie J.; Chen, Robert T.
- Abstract
Provides a study that quantifies the risk of contracting measles among individuals claiming religious and/or philosophical exemptions from immunization (exemptors) compared with vaccinated persons, and examines the risk that exemptors pose to the nonexempt population. Context; Design; Participants; Results; Conclusions.
- Subjects
MEASLES; VACCINATION; VACCINES; SPIRITUAL healing; HEALTH; IMMUNOLOGY; ETHICS
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1999, Vol 282, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.282.1.47