[HTML][HTML] Mandatory infant & childhood immunization: Rationales, issues and knowledge gaps

NE MacDonald, S Harmon, E Dube, A Steenbeek… - Vaccine, 2018 - Elsevier
Globally, infant and childhood vaccine uptake rates are not high enough to control vaccine
preventable diseases, with outbreaks occurring even in high-income countries. This has led …

The legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic for childhood vaccination in the USA

DJ Opel, NT Brewer, AM Buttenheim, T Callaghan… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, achievements in childhood vaccine coverage
in the USA and globally appeared imperiled. Misinformation about vaccines was pervasive …

Strategies for improving vaccine communication and uptake

ST O'Leary, DJ Opel, JR Cataldi, JM Hackell - Pediatrics, 2024 - publications.aap.org
Vaccines have led to a significant decrease in rates of vaccine-preventable diseases and
have made a significant impact on the health of children. However, some parents express …

Does disease cause vaccination? Disease outbreaks and vaccination response

E Oster - Journal of health economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Parental fear of vaccines has limited vaccination rates in the United States. I test whether
disease outbreaks increase vaccination using a new dataset of county-level disease and …

[HTML][HTML] Resources for assessing parents' vaccine hesitancy: A systematic review of the literature

P Cella, G Voglino, I Barberis, E Alagna… - Journal of preventive …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Summary The concept of Vaccine Hesitancy has begun to appear in the scientific
landscape, referring to the reluctance of a growing proportion of people to accept the …

Parent attitudes towards childhood vaccines after the onset of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States

DJ Opel, A Furniss, C Zhou, JD Rice, H Spielvogle… - Academic pediatrics, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To understand the influence of a novel infectious disease epidemic on parent
general attitudes about childhood vaccines. Methods We conducted a natural experiment …

Recent advances in addressing vaccine hesitancy

C Braun, ST O'Leary - Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Recent advances in addressing vaccine hesitancy : Current Opinion in Pediatrics Recent
advances in addressing vaccine hesitancy : Current Opinion in Pediatrics Log in or Register …

What is 'confidence'and what could affect it?: A qualitative study of mothers who are hesitant about vaccines

JA Mendel-Van Alstyne, GJ Nowak, AL Aikin - Vaccine, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Public confidence in immunization is critical to maintaining high vaccine-
coverage rates needed to protect individuals and communities from vaccine-preventable …

Civility, credibility, and health information: The impact of uncivil comments and source credibility on attitudes about vaccines

FJ Jennings, FM Russell - Public Understanding of Science, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
As individuals turn to social media sites for health information, it is important to understand
the factors that influence their perceptions of this information. This study employed an …

Measles, the media, and MMR: impact of the 2014–15 measles outbreak

JR Cataldi, AF Dempsey, ST O'Leary - Vaccine, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective In late 2014, a measles outbreak beginning in California received significant
media attention. To better understand the impact of this outbreak, we conducted a survey to …