Vaccine Risk Perceptions and Ad Hoc Risk Communication
Title | Vaccine Risk Perceptions and Ad Hoc Risk Communication PDF eBook |
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Pages | 81 |
Release | 2014 |
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This Report presents empirical evidence relevant to assessing the claim--reported widely in the media and other sources--that the public is growing increasingly anxious about the safety of childhood vaccinations. Based on survey and experimental methods (N = 2,316), the Report presents two principal findings: first, that vaccine risks are neither a matter of concern for the vast majority of the public nor an issue of contention among recognizable demographic, political, or cultural subgroups; and second, that ad hoc forms of risk communication that assert there is mounting resistance to childhood immunizations themselves pose a risk of creating misimpressions and arousing sensibilities that could culturally polarize the public and diminish motivation to cooperate with universal vaccination programs. Based on these findings the Report recommends that government agencies, public health professionals, and other constituents of the public health establishment (1) promote the use of valid and appropriately focused empirical methods for investigating vaccine-risk perceptions and formulating responsive risk communication strategies; (2) discourage ad hoc risk communication based on impressionistic or psychometrically invalid alternatives to these methods; (3) publicize the persistently high rates of childhood vaccination and high levels of public support for universal immunization in the U.S.; and (4) correct ad hoc communicators who misrepresent U.S. vaccination coverage and its relationship to the incidence of childhood diseases.
Vaccine Risk Perception, Risk Communication and Decision-making
Title | Vaccine Risk Perception, Risk Communication and Decision-making PDF eBook |
Author | Marcela Adriana Penţa |
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Pages | 326 |
Release | 2017 |
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Risk Communication and Vaccination
Title | Risk Communication and Vaccination PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 1997-08-10 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309057906 |
Assessment of Verbal Vaccine Risk Communication
Title | Assessment of Verbal Vaccine Risk Communication PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Maxwell |
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Pages | 24 |
Release | 2002 |
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Oxford Textbook of Public Health
Title | Oxford Textbook of Public Health PDF eBook |
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Pages | 832 |
Release | 2002 |
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Immunization Safety Review
Title | Immunization Safety Review PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2002-07-02 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309169887 |
By two years of age, healthy infants in the United States can receive up to 20 vaccinations to protect against 11 diseases. Although most people know that vaccines effectively protect against serious infectious diseases, approximately one-quarter of parents in a recent survey believe that infants get more vaccines than are good for them, and that too many immunizations could overwhelm an infant's immune system. The Immunization Safety Review Committee reviewed the evidence regarding the hypothesis that multiple immunizations increase the risk for immune dysfunction. Specifically, the committee looked at evidence of potential biological mechanisms and at epidemiological evidence for or against causality related to risk for infections, the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes, and allergic disorders.
Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health
Title | Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Detels |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1717 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 019881013X |
Sixth edition of the hugely successful, internationally recognised textbook on global public health and epidemiology, with 3 volumes comprehensively covering the scope, methods, and practice of the discipline