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Drivers of Noncompliance With Vaccine Mandates—The Interplay Between Distrust, Rationality, Morality, and Social Motivation

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT COVID‐19 amplified the issue of public resistance to government vaccination programs. Little attention has focused on people's moral reasons for noncompliance, which differ from—but often build upon—the epistemic claims they make about vaccine safety and efficacy, disease severity, and the trustworthiness of government. This study explores the
Katie Attwell, Hang Duong, Amy Morris, Leah Roberts, Mark Navin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Peter Markey, Steven Skov, Gary Dowse   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

MMR vaccination complications : is it time to lay the myth to rest? [PDF]

, 2005
Recent, media-hyped controversy has centred on whether there is any link between the combined measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism or inflammatory bowel disease.
Grech, Victor E.
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Teenagers’ understandings of and attitudes towards vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases: a qualitative study [PDF]

, 2013
<p>Background: To examine immunisation information needs of teenagers we explored understandings of vaccination and vaccine-preventable diseases, attitudes towards immunisation and experiences of immunisation.
Barbour, Bedford, Bloor, Bond, Brabin, Brownlie, Butler, Bynum, C. Patterson, Clark, Crocker, Duffell, E. Smith, Finn, Flynn, Gellin, Gordon, H. Bedford, Hilton, Hilton, Hilton, Hinds, Hobson-West, K. Hunt, Kale, Kitzinger, Lashkari, Maple, Marlow, Miller, Paranthaman, Pareek, Parrella, Peckham, Pelucchi, Pollard, Poltorak, Ramsay, Ritchie, S. Hilton, Slonim, Smailbegovic, Smith, Sporton, Streefland, Stretch, Woodhall, Yarwood, Zimet   +48 more
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Predictors of measles vaccination coverage among children 6-59 months of age in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [PDF]

, 2018
BackgroundMeasles is a significant contributor to child mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), despite routine immunization programs and supplementary immunization activities (SIA).
Alfonso, Vivian H, Ashbaugh, Hayley R, Cherry, James D, Doshi, Reena H, Gadoth, Adva, Gerber, Sue K, Hoff, Nicole A, Mukadi, Patrick, Muyembe-Tamfum, Jean Jacques, Okitolonda-Wemakoy, Emile, Rimoin, Anne W   +10 more
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Evolution of Aluminium Sensitisation in a French Paediatric Population

Contact Dermatitis, EarlyView.
Laux Miranda, Letertre‐lelou Oriane, Naimi Nour, Segretin Pierre, Labrèze Christine, Milpied Brigitte   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Media amplification under the floodlight: Contextualizing 20 years of US risk news

Risk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper addresses the question of identifying and distinguishing risk amplification incidents and patterns in the news media. To meet this objective, our study incorporates a novel “floodlight” approach utilizing the Society for Risk Analysis Glossary in conjunction with topic modeling and time‐series analysis, to investigate risk‐focused ...
Cormac Bryce, Michael Dowling, Suwan (Cheng) Long, Jamie K. Wardman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measles second dose vaccine uptake and its associated factors among children aged 24–35 months in Northwest Ethiopia, 2022

Scientific Reports
Measles 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, Habtamu Temesgen, Wassachew Ashebir, Habitamu Mekonen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Posting environmental risk: Communicating with numerical and nonnumerical messaging across information modalities

Risk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Risk communicators frequently engage members of the public through social media; therefore, it is important to understand how to effectively communicate risks about environmental and health issues. This experiment with U.S. adults (N = 737) explored how message features in risk‐focused social media posts—namely, message modality (text‐only ...
Megan L. P. Norman, Jiaqi Agnes Bao, Triwik Kurniasari, Chris Skurka   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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