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Beyond the expert

Monday, May 29, 2017 - 11:45

Some things just do not want to die. In public health, anti-vaccination movements keep sizzling debates, just as they did in the XIX century. At the same time,  the “deficit model” of science communication – the myth that the “public” is just ignorant and that it would support science, if spoon-fed information from the ivory tower – still haunts the relationship between health, science and the community, despite having been repeatedly debunked. The two zombies are more related than one could believe. Vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccination movements grow in the cracks between trust and knowledge, and these are the fault lines that communication should heal – or rip apart, if it fails.

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Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Media, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, hesitant parents, communication, public health communication, science and society, science-in-society, Science communication

The behind-the-scenes activity of parental decision-making discourse regarding childhood vaccination

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 16:05

Gesser-Edelsburg A, Walter N, Shir-Raz Y, Sassoni Bar-Lev O, Rosenblat S. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Mar 1;45(3):267-271. 

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Antivaccination parents, hesitant parents, provaccination, risk communication
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