The knowledge and the attitude of students from the selected Lublin's universities towards the influenza vaccination

Main Authors: Furtak-Niczyporuk, Marzena, Warchoł, Martyna, Kurnik, Paweł, Gierszon, Patrycja
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/1185296
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  • Furtak-Niczyporuk Marzena, Warchoł Martyna, Kurnik Paweł, Gierszon Patrycja. The knowledge and the attitude of students from the selected Lublin’s universities towards the influenza vaccination. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(3):43-50. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1185276 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5310 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.02.2018. Revised: 10.02.2018. Accepted: 25.02.2018. The knowledge and the attitude of students from the selected Lublin’s universities towards the influenza vaccination Wiedza i postawa studentów wybranych lubelskich uczelni na temat szczepień przeciwko grypie Marzena Furtak-Niczyporuk1, Martyna Warchoł2, Paweł Kurnik3, Patrycja Gierszon4 1 Ph.D., Medical University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 1, 20-059 Lublin 2 Ph.D. student, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Al. IX Wieków Kielc 19, 25-317 Kielce, Poland, 3 graduate, Medical University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 1, 20-059 Lublin 4 Medical University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 1, 20-059 Lublin Abstract Among all of the infectious diseases, it is influenza that affects the most people. The high infectiousness is it’s characteristic, therefore people fall ill to it, regardless of age or gender. When it comes to the flu illness, the highest risk group are children and people over 65.The airways’ infection caused by the flu virus is a serious health issue all around the world, causing 3-5 millions of clinical infections and 250-500 thousands deaths per year. Key words: vaccination, influenza