Linking Time-Use Data to Explore Health Outcomes: Choosing to Vaccinate Against Influenza.

ABSTRACT: To inform public health and medical decision makers concerning vaccination interventions, a methodology for merging and analyzing detailed activity data and health outcomes is presented. The objective is to investigate relationships between individual's activity choices and their decision to receive an influenza vaccination. Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) are used to predict vaccination rates in the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data between 2003 and 2013 by using combined socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. The correlations between the extensive (do or not do) and intensive (how much) decisions to perform activities and influenza vaccination are further explored. Significant positive and negative correlations were found between several activi

SUBMITTER: Berry K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976524 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature