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Towards an extension of mandatory vaccination in Italy?

Monday, February 6, 2017 - 10:44

Immunization rates in Italy are decreasing at a worrying trend: international targets for measles eradication and safety thresholds in childhood vaccination are vanishing. Authorities, doctors and families are concerned that a coverage below 86% for MPR (measles, parotitis and rubella) vaccine can impair herd immunity, putting younger babies, immunocompromised people and not-responders at risk.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Prevention, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, Vaccine safety, communication, engagement, public health

Population consultation, two-way communication and decision

Some countries are slowly moving toward the implementation of a two-way PH communication strategy. For example, in May 2010, shortly after the H1N1 pandemic, the public health authorities of New Zealand designed a rapid response initiative to have feedback from population on the communication campaign and on their risk perception. The project consisted in a study, which aimed to retrieve evidence-based information which health authorities could use to design tailored health communication campaigns during/after periods of pandemics.

Country: 
New Zealand
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Local Activities, Stakeholders
Tags: 
communication, inequities

The Health Mediators project in Romania (RHM – Roma Health Mediators)

In 1991, a first mediation program was initially conceived by the Romani Criss NGO mainly focused as a conflict mitigation project. Mediators were being trained to improve communication between Roma communities, non-Roma population and local authorities. In 1996, supported by the Catholic Centre against Famine and for Development (CCFD), the NGO reoriented the program to a health-focused mediation, principally aimed at improving social conditions for Roma and facilitating communication between Roma communities and medical providers.

Country: 
Romania
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Policy, Vaccination
Tags: 
communication, Vaccine, best practice, Roma

The health mediation in Bulgaria

The Bulgarian health mediator model was developed based on the experience of the Dutch Institute of Public Health and on the Romanian model of health mediators, which was presented by the Romani CRISS Foundation and the Romanian Ministry of Health.

Country: 
Bulgaria
Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Human Rights, Local Activities, Vaccination
Tags: 
best practice, Vaccine, communication, Roma

A first glance at ASSET citizen consultation

Saturday, October 29, 2016 - 10:23

Citizens across Europe participated to the daylong citizen consultations organized by the ASSET project at the end of September.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Citizens' Mobilization, Local Activities, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
citizen consultation, gender issues, Vaccine, science-in-society, communication

We are ineffective in communicating about vaccines

Friday, November 13, 2015 - 10:12

Rhett Krawit is a Californian 7-year-old kid. He survived leukaemia after a fight lasted three-and-half years that left his immune system highly compromised. He wants to go to school and he has any right to do so, but he cannot do it safely. Rhett cannot be vaccinated because his immune system is still rebuilding and the presence of unvaccinated children exposes him to diseases like measles and chicken pox, which could be lethal for him. An actual risk, since in almost one fourth of Californian schools the herd immunity has been lost because of vaccine hesitancy and refusal.

Target: 
Citizens, Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Human Rights, Media, Prevention, Vaccination
Tags: 
Vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, communication

Guidelines on science and health communication

The Social Issues Research Centre, The Royal Society, The Royal Institution of Great Britain. 2001. Guidelines on science and health communication.

Target: 
Citizens, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Media, Stakeholders
Tags: 
Royal Society, SIRC, Royal Instituion, media, communication

Bulletin of the World Health Organization Risk and outbreak communication: lessons from alternative paradigms

Friday, September 11, 2015 - 12:43

WHO’s guidelines on outbreak communication were developed in response to the communication challenges posed by the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic of 2003. The guidelines consist of five principles to guide communication during outbreaks and other emergencies: building trust, announcing early, being transparent, respecting public concerns and planning in advance. On the face of it, these guidelines are simple and straightforward.

Source: 
Scientific literature
Tags: 
communication, outbreak
PDF icon who_risk_and_outbreak_communication_lessons_from_alternative_paradigms.pdf

Set It and Forget It: The One-Way Use of Social Media by Government Agencies Communicating Science

Friday, September 11, 2015 - 12:37

Lee NM, VanDyke MS. Science Communication. 2015 Aug 1;37(4):533-41.

Source: 
Scientific literature
Target: 
Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Media
Tags: 
media, communication

Lessons from the pandemic: the need for new tools for risk and outbreak communication

Friday, September 11, 2015 - 12:06

Abraham T. Emerg Health Threats J. 2011 Oct 17;4:7160. 

Source: 
Scientific literature
Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Tags: 
pandemic, outbreak, communication
PDF icon lessons_from_2009_pandemic_abraham.pdf

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