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Vaccination Rates Low, but Seasonal Flu Shot Awareness High in Hispanics
"Previous national studies show that Hispanics have lower influenza vaccination rates than the general population, especially non-Hispanic whites," said lead author Jeffrey Bethel, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. "These are usually telephone-based surveys that may miss many lower-income people who don''t have landline telephones. We wanted to go door-to-door to get those being missed."
Two hundred twenty-six Hispanic men and women 18 and older in three regions of San Diego County responded to the health care survey reported in the latest issue of the journal Ethnicity & Disease. A section of the survey looked specifically at awareness of seasonal flu concerns and vaccinations.
Overall, nearly 90 percent of those who responded were aware of guidelines suggesting that those over 65 years of age should get the seasonal flu vaccine. However, awareness was much higher among women than it was among men. There were also large gender differences among those who actually got the shot: nearly 26 percent more women than men age 65 received vaccinations.
"We found similar results among Hispanics in San Diego County in this study when compared to earlier national telephone surveys," Bethel said. "We also found that Hispanic men had an even lower awareness and use of seasonal influenza vaccination compared to Hispanic women."
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