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‘MMR talk’ and vaccination choices: An ethnographic study in Brighton [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Science and Medicine, 2005
In the context of the high-profile controversy that has unfolded in the UK around the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and its possible adverse effects, this paper explores how parents in Brighton, southern England, are thinking about MMR for ...
Melissa Leach   +2 more
exaly   +1 more source

Is the cultural context of MMR rejection a key to an effective public health discourse? [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health, 2006
Summary Objectives: (1) To explore the social and cultural influences, and health beliefs associated with low uptake of MMR (measles, mumps and rubella vaccine). (2) To describe and explore the prevalence of health beliefs associated with non- compliance
Catherine Mercer
exaly   +1 more source

MMR and MMRV vaccines

Vaccine, 2018
Measles, mumps, rubella and varicella are viral infections which can implicate seriously long-term sequelae of infected individuals or even the unborn child. Vaccines against the individual diseases have long been available. Global measles vaccination is estimated to have prevented more than 20million deaths during 2000-2015.
Frank, Kowalzik   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

MMR vaccine and autism

BMJ, 2010
Health professionals must enter the public arena if future debacles are to be prevented Two and a half years after beginning to hear evidence, the General Medical Council (GMC) has ruled that three researchers acted improperly in the conduct of their research into a proposed new syndrome of autistic enterocolitis.1 It is 12 years since publication of ...
Helen E, Bedford, David A C, Elliman
openaire   +2 more sources

MMR

Early Years Educator, 2001
Measles, mumps and rubella (known as MMR) are common childhood illnesses. Dr Robert Walker advises on how to treat them and also discusses the vaccination controversy.
openaire   +1 more source

MMR is but the tip of the iceberg

BMJ, 2011
Institutions have a vested interest in ignoring or burying bad news about possible research misconduct.1 It is disturbing that even something as far reaching for public health as the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine case has …
openaire   +2 more sources

The new MMR?

BMJ, 2004
Are the media stirring up a fresh autism scare? On 15 March the Daily Mail reported that a scientist had made some disturbing claims about a common three-in-one childhood vaccine. In a nutshell, it could cause autism. Campaigners were demanding that the vaccine be phased out forthwith, and replaced by an available alternative.
openaire   +1 more source

Reason for MMR

Practice Nursing, 2001
The debate over use of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine affects practice nurses more than any other health professional. In most cases it is practice nurses who give the MMR vaccinations and, therefore, they are the health professionals who need to be confident that they are doing their patients no harm and are conforming to professional codes ...
openaire   +1 more source

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