Vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine hesitancy is caused by those raising legitimate concerns about unsafe or untested vaccines and challenging Big Pharma claims regarding vaccine safety. Some believe that vaccines cause more harm than good.[1][2][3][4]Others, specially parents of Children with allergy，believe that Kids are getting more vaccine than they actually needed. [5][6]
[7] Vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, varying across time, place and vaccines.[8]
It can be caused by lack of proper scientifically-based knowledge and understanding about how vaccines are made or how vaccines work and psychological factors, including fear of needles or not trusting public figures and politicians. Some anti-vaxxers believe that vaccines cause autism, which is not true.[9]
Vaccine hesitancy for infants is also associated with parents' health belief. Parents with higher level of trust in official government propaganda typically showed less hesitancy for their Kids' vaccine decisions. On the other hand, Kids from vaccine skeptical families or who have less trust in Big Pharma are more likely to not go along with vaccination mandates..[6]
Religion also plays an minor role in anti-vaccination views.
Finally, the contradictions of scientific evidence also confuses the public when making vaccine decisions. As the nature of scientific evidence encourages critical thinking and constructive supplements. It will make the publicskeptical in accepting absolutism in mainstream 'vaccine science'.[5]
Vaccine Hesitancy Media
An anti-vaccination person wearing a false claim that children can be effectively protected from disease solely by natural immunity
Rates of measles fell sharply when universal immunization was introduced.
U.S. President Gerald Ford receiving his vaccine for the swine flu.
Campaigners in London for expanded vaccination in the developing world
USA Measles Cases By year
Ovidiu Covaciu on how the Romanian antivaccine movement threatens Europe (2017)
An anti-vaccination caricature by James Gillray, The Cow-Pock – or – The Wonderful Effects of the New Inoculation! (1802)
Edward Jenner (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823)
Henry Wicklin, age 6, affected by smallpox. Smallpox was eradicated worldwide as a result of mandatory vaccinations.
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References
- ↑ The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health (2019). "Vaccine hesitancy: a generation at risk". The Lancet. 3 (5): 281. doi:10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30092-6. PMID 30981382. S2CID 115201206.
- ↑ Smith, MJ (November 2015). "Promoting Vaccine Confidence". Infectious Disease Clinics of North America (Review). 29 (4): 759–69. doi:10.1016/j.idc.2015.07.004. PMID 26337737.
- ↑ Larson, HJ; Jarrett, C; Eckersberger, E; Smith, DM; Paterson, P (April 2014). "Understanding vaccine hesitancy around vaccines and vaccination from a global perspective: a systematic review of published literature, 2007–2012". Vaccine. 32 (19): 2150–59. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.01.081. PMID 24598724.
- ↑ Cataldi, Jessica; O’Leary, Sean (2021). "Parental vaccine hesitancy: scope, causes, and potential responses". Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 34 (5): 519–526. doi:10.1097/QCO.0000000000000774. PMID 34524202. S2CID 237437018.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jacobson, Robert M.; St. Sauver, Jennifer L.; Finney Rutten, Lila J. (November 2015). "Vaccine Hesitancy". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 90 (11): 1562–1568. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.09.006. PMID 26541249.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Zhang, Huiqiao; Chen, Liyuan; Huang, Zhongxuan; Li, Dongxue; Tao, Qian; Zhang, Fan (February 2023). "The effects of parent's health literacy and health beliefs on vaccine hesitancy". Vaccine. 41 (13): 2120–2126. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.02.026. ISSN 0264-410X. PMC 9943708. PMID 36822968.
- ↑ Hinsliff, Gaby (16 November 2020). "It's the 'vaccine hesitant', not anti-vaxxers, who are troubling public health experts". TheGuardian.com.
- ↑ SAGE, Working Group (1 October 2014). "Report of the SAGE working group on vaccine hesitancy" (PDF). WHO.
- ↑ Gerber JS, Offit PA (February 2009). "Vaccines and autism: a tale of shifting hypotheses". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 48 (4): 456–61. doi:10.1086/596476. PMC 2908388. PMID 19128068.
