Cervical cancer screening programs in Europe: the transition towards HPV vaccination and population-based HPV testing

AC Chrysostomou, DC Stylianou, A Constantinidou… - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequently occurring cancer in women around the world
and can affect them during their reproductive years. Since the development of the …

Contemporary vaccination policy in the European Union: tensions and dilemmas

KT Paul, K Loer - Journal of public health policy, 2019 - Springer
This paper seeks to contribute to a more nuanced discourse on vaccination policy. Current
polarization between either mandatory and entirely voluntary is misleading, as virtually all …

Newspaper coverage of childhood immunisation in Australia: a lens into conflicts within public health

N Stephenson, S Chaukra, I Katz… - Media Analysis and …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Public health efforts to lift childhood vaccination rates can be supported or undermined by
media representations of parents. Polarising representations neglect the large range of …

What kind of 'a girls' thing'? Frictions and continuities in the framing and taming of the HPV vaccine in Finland

MJ Virtanen - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article focuses on two different ways of framing and taming the uncertainties of the
human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in the context of the Finnish welfare state: the bio …

Vaccines, polarising divides and the role of public health

K Dew, S Donovan - Critical Public Health, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In 1962, Alexander Langmuir and his colleagues at the epidemiology branch of the
Communicable Disease Center of the United States Public Health Service argued that …

From knowledge to a gendered event and trustful ties: HPV vaccine framings of eligible Finnish girls and school nurses

MJ Virtanen, S Salmivaara - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the present study, we examine socio‐cultural and practical aspects of human
papillomavirus vaccination (HPVV) through a multi‐sited study of framings. We ask how …

Aligning in the dark: Variable and shifting (user-) settings in developing point-of-care diagnostics for tuberculosis and HIV

N Engel - Social Studies of Science, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
To be effective, healthcare technologies should be attuned to particular contexts of use. This
article examines how such attuning is articulated in global innovation practices for …

Political and public responses to human papillomavirus vaccination

GD Zimet, BE Meyerson, T Dutta, A Forster… - Human …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we address political/policy issues that have been encountered with
implementing and sustaining human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization programs across …

Walking the (argumentative) talk using citizen science: Involving young people in a critical policy analysis of vaccination policy in Austria

KT Paul, T Palfinger - Evidence & Policy, 2020 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
Background: Vaccination policy has grown increasingly polarised, and concerns about
vaccination practices are often articulated jointly with fears over declining trust in scientific …

Collective Organization of discourse expertise using information technology–CODE IT! a citizen science case study of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination …

KT Paul - IT-Information Technology, 2018 - degruyter.com
This paper offers a short report on a participatory citizen science project and offers some
reflections on the lessons learned. In particular, we report on our aims and methods, and the …