Edgar K. Marcuse
University of Washington
49 Papers
399 Citations
Edgar K. Marcuse is an academic researcher from University of Washington. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Public health. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 47 publications. Previous affiliations of Edgar K. Marcuse include Boston Children's Hospital.
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Papers
Parental Delay or Refusal of Vaccine Doses, Childhood Vaccination Coverage at 24 Months of Age, and the Health Belief Model
Philip J. Smith,Sharon G. Humiston,Edgar K. Marcuse,Zhen Zhao,Christina Dorell,Cynthia Howes,Beth F. Hibbs +6 more
TL;DR: Parents who delayed and refused vaccine doses were more likely to have vaccine safety concerns and perceive fewer benefits associated with vaccines, and had significantly lower coverage for all 10 childhood vaccines.
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Are Language Barriers Associated With Serious Medical Events in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients
TL;DR: Spanish-speaking patients whose families have a language barrier seem to have a significantly increased risk for serious medical events during pediatric hospitalization compared with patientswhose families do not have alanguage barrier.
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Vaccines and immunization
Heather Lynch,Edgar K. Marcuse +1 more
- 01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: Immunization has fundamentally altered the global infectious disease ecology and the emergence and spread of HIV and its resulting devastation in the latter part of the last century has made clear mankind's continued vulnerability to epidemic infectious disease.
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Social marketing as a strategy to increase immunization rates.
TL;DR: This work presents an often overlooked behavior change strategy-social marketing-as a way to improve immunization rates by addressing the important roots of immunization hesitancy and effectively engaging emotions.
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Association of vaccine-related attitudes and beliefs between parents and health care providers
Michelle J. Mergler,Saad B. Omer,Saad B. Omer,William Pan,Ann Marie Navar-Boggan,Ann Marie Navar-Boggan,Walter A. Orenstein,Edgar K. Marcuse,James G. Taylor,M. Patricia deHart,Terrell Carter,Anthony Damico,Neal A. Halsey,Daniel A. Salmon +13 more
TL;DR: The beliefs of children's health care providers and parents, including those regarding vaccine safety, are similar, and provider beliefs may contribute to parental decisions to accept, delay or forgo vaccinations.
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