Countering antivaccination attitudes

Z Horne, D Powell, JE Hummel… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Three times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014 as in
2013. The reemergence of measles has been linked to a dangerous trend: parents refusing …

Calling the shots: Why parents reject vaccines

JA Reich - Calling the Shots, 2016 - degruyter.com
The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen US states
and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames …

Understanding vaccine refusal: why we need social media now

M Dredze, DA Broniatowski, MC Smith… - American journal of …, 2016 - ajpmonline.org
The recent Disneyland measles outbreak brought national attention to a growing problem:
vaccine refusal—herd immunity is no longer a reality in many communities. Only 70% of …

The relationship between parental source of information and knowledge about measles/measles vaccine and vaccine hesitancy

S Ashkenazi, G Livni, A Klein, N Kremer, A Havlin… - Vaccine, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Based on the hypothesis that sources of information might affect knowledge and
vaccine acceptance, our objectives were to study parental characteristics and sources of …

Vaccinating children against Covid-19—the lessons of measles

P Klass, AJ Ratner - New England Journal of Medicine, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Vaccinating Children against Covid-19 As we consider vaccinating children against Covid-
19, measles and measles vaccination campaigns may offer relevant insights about parents' …

Religious barriers to measles vaccination

E Wombwell, MT Fangman, AK Yoder… - Journal of community …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract In 2014, the United States has experienced an increase in measles activity, the
most since the elimination of the virus in 2000. The measles infection occurs in unvaccinated …

Vaccine hesitancy: More than a movement

D Callender - Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Vaccines are some of if not the most successful public health endeavors ever put into
practice. Countless lives have been saved and the occurrences of vaccine preventable …

Don't try to convert the antivaccinators, instead target the fence-sitters

C Betsch, L Korn, C Holtmann - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Developing effective communication strategies to increase vaccine uptake is crucial in times
of increasing vaccine hesitancy and repeated outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases …

Exposing concerns about vaccination in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

D Cobos Muñoz, L Monzón Llamas… - International journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Objectives Concerns about vaccination lead to under-and no-vaccination. Our objective is to
synthesise and expose evidence on individuals' and communities' concerns about …

The role of humor in messaging about the MMR vaccine

E Moyer-Gusé, MJ Robinson… - Journal of Health …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases have increased due, in part, to misconceptions
about vaccine safety (Kennedy et al., 2011). Extant literature has examined various …