To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate—opinion

Attempts to Vaccinate Foals with Living Tissue Culture Adapted Horse Sickness Virus

DGS II 2013 - International Conference and Advanced School Planet Earth , Dynamics , Games and Science II Portugal 28 August to 6 September 2013

In the case of voluntary vaccination, people have to face the benefit of vaccinate against the adverse effects that may result from the act of vaccination. This dilemma is even more important when parents have to decide whether or not to vaccinate their children. The decision depends on the perceived risks from vaccination and infection, but also depends on the decision of all other people: if ...

To Vaccinate or to Procrastinate? That is the Prevention Question.

Invoking Yaari's dual theory, we develop a model of individual vaccination decisions that incorporates quasi-hyperbolic discounting, risk aversion, and information. We test the resulting hypotheses for the flu season 2010/2011 using a representative German data set. We find a significant impact of time preferences on immunization decisions. The impact of the discount factor is significantly neg...

Negative attitude and low intention to vaccinate universally against varicella among public health professionals and parents in the Netherlands: two internet surveys

BACKGROUND Prior to introduction of universal varicella vaccination, it is crucial to gain insight into the willingness to vaccinate among the population. This is because suboptimal national vaccination coverage might increase the age of infection in children, which will lead to higher complication rates. We studied the attitude and intention to vaccinate against varicella among Dutch public he...

A self-affirmation exercise does not improve intentions to vaccinate among parents with negative vaccine attitudes (and may decrease intentions to vaccinate)

Two studies investigated the effectiveness of a self-affirmation exercise on vaccine safety beliefs and intent to vaccinate future children. In Study 1, a sample of 585 parents with at least one child under the age of 18 in the home participated through Amazon's MTurk. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four conditions in a 2 x 2 design. Participants read either correcting informatio...