Measuring Vaccine Confidence: Introducing a Global Vaccine Confidence Index
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Addressing the vaccine confidence gap.
Vaccines--often lauded as one of the greatest public health interventions--are losing public confidence. Some vaccine experts have referred to this decline in confidence as a crisis. We discuss some of the characteristics of the changing global environment that are contributing to increased public questioning of vaccines, and outline some of the specific determinants of public trust. Public dec...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Currents
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2157-3999
DOI: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.ce0f6177bc97332602a8e3fe7d7f7cc4