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Do Neighborhoods Matter for Individual Decision‐Making? The Case of COVID‐19 Vaccination in Sweden
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much research has highlighted the significance of neighborhood effects on individual‐level choices and outcomes. But it has proven difficult to disentangle the influence of those that an individual shares a residential space with from that of other peers, such as work colleagues and family members.
Johan Klaesson +3 more
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Vaccination and public trust: a model for the dissemination of vaccination behavior with external intervention [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 Vaccination is widely recognized as the most effective way of immunization against many infectious diseases. However, unfounded claims about supposed side effects of some vaccines have contributed to spread concern and fear among people, thus inducing vaccination refusal. For instance, MMR vaccine coverage has undergone an important decrease in a large
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Enhancing Democratic Expertise Through Intra‐Party Deliberation
Constellations, EarlyView.
Enrico Biale, Giulia Bistagnino
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Malnutrition is a major disease burden in developing countries, particularly in recurrently drought‐affected areas. Despite the Ethiopian government's initiatives to set up stabilization centers in different hospitals to tackle severe acute malnutrition, there is limited data on the time to recover from severe acute malnutrition and its ...
Temesgen Gebeyehu Wondmeneh +1 more
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Measles transmission by ‘fly‐in fly‐out’ workers in Australia
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013 Objective: To describe the outbreak investigation and control measures for a cluster of measles cases involving ‘fly‐in fly‐out’ (FIFO) workers on an off‐shore industrial vessel.
Christopher P. Burgess +3 more
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The Long‐Term Effects of In Utero Exposure to Rubella
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A rubella infection in early pregnancy poses a significant risk of damage to the foetus. In this paper, we examine the later‐life impact of a rubella outbreak that occurred in Ireland in 1956. Matching the outcomes of individuals born in 1954–1957 in the 2016 Irish Census of Population to the county‐level rubella incidence rate that was ...
Irene Mosca, Anne Nolan
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From regional pulse vaccination to global disease eradication: insights from a mathematical model of Poliomyelitis [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Mass-vaccination campaigns are an important strategy in the global fight against poliomyelitis and measles. The large-scale logistics required for these mass immunisation campaigns magnifies the need for research into the effectiveness and optimal deployment of pulse vaccination.
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Scientific ReportsMeasles is a major public health problem in under-five children, leading to lifelong complications. Therefore, the study aimed to assess the magnitude of measles second-dose vaccine uptake and its determinants among children aged 24–35 months in ...
Worku Taffie +3 more
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A Recombinant Measles Vaccine with Enhanced Resistance to Passive Immunity
Viruses, 2017 Current measles vaccines suffer from poor effectiveness in young infants due primarily to the inhibitory effect of residual maternal immunity on vaccine responses.
Emily Julik, Jorge Reyes-del Valle
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Epidemiology of measles in Oromia region, Ethiopia, 2007-2016
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: measles is the leading vaccine preventable childhood disease designated for elimination by WHO. More than 20 million people are affected by measles each year, particularly in Africa and Asia.
Mulugeta Asefa Gutu +3 more
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