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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957204703321

Titolo

Risk communication and vaccination : summary of a workshop / / Geoffrey Evans ... [et al.] ; Vaccine Safety Forum, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-19146-5

9786610191468

0-309-57362-9

0-585-14923-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 35 pages)

Collana

The compass series

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansGeoffrey

Disciplina

615/.372

Soggetti

Vaccines - Safety measures

Vaccination - Complications - Risk factors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-25).

Nota di contenuto

Risk Communication and Vaccination -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Risk Communication and Vaccination:   Summary of a Workshop -- Executive Summary -- Introduction and Background -- Risk Perception and Decisionmaking -- HEURISTICS AND BIASES -- INFLUENCES ON AND BIASES OF EXPERTS -- Influences on the Acceptability of Vaccine Risks -- THE LOGIC OF VACCINATION DECISIONS: BANDWAGONING, FREE-RIDING, AND ALTRUISM -- PERCEPTION OF DISEASE RISKS -- ETHICAL AND POLICY ISSUES -- UNCERTAINTY AND TRUST -- Current Communications Efforts -- GOVERNMENTAL EFFORTS -- Vaccine Information Statements -- MANUFACTURERS' EFFORTS -- Package Insert -- Advertising -- Parent Information Brochures -- NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS -- PROVIDER-PARENT INTERACTIONS -- Improving Vaccine Risk Communications -- Summary -- References -- Workshop Agenda -- PARTICIPANTS LIST -- Appendix  Example of Vaccine Information Statements.