Understanding vaccination resistance
Moving beyond risk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21149129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pru Hobson-West (0000-0001-6105-0747, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 273-283 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Risk & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8575 • E-ISSN: 1469-8331 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698570310001606978 |
| OpenAlex | W2046756427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 89 |
| References cited | 15 |
Mass childhood immunisation (MCI) is of primary importance to all modern public health systems and relies on high levels of uptake. Recent controversy in the UK about the safety of the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine has prompted widespread concerns and a government response that concentrates on providing more information to the public. This information has mainly adopted the language of risk, as exemplified in recent health promotion materials designed to persuade parents to choose the MMR vaccine. The paper analyses the key material and reveals three contestable assumptions; first, that individuals make decisions through a comparison of individual risk; second, that public concern about vaccination is due to a miscalculation of risk; third, that a policy of providing more risk statistics is the best response to the controversy. Through criticising these assumptions it is argued that some resistance to MCI is about alternative understandings of basic categories of health and disease. Further research is needed to investigate the role of uncertainty and trust in understanding anti-vaccination
Environmental health · Health promotion · Measles · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public relations · Rubella · Vaccination · Influenza Virus Research Studies · Medicine · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Immunology
Health, Risk and Uncertainty in the Life Course
Community members have more impact on their neighbors than celebrities”
Spherologies of Immunisation
Communicating Care
Democratizing Risk Governance
Public Misunderstanding of Science? Reframing the Problem of Vaccine Hesitancy
Strategies intended to address vaccine hesitancy
Demographic and attitudinal determinants of protective behaviours during a pandemic
Current Directions in Risk Research
Vaccine hesitancy, vaccine refusal and the anti-vaccine movement
Vaccine hesitancy
A postmodern Pandora's box
I know it has worked for millions of years’
Vaccine confidence in China after the Changsheng vaccine incident
Making sense of perceptions of risk of diseases and vaccinations
Attitude and subjective wellbeing of non-compliant mothers to childhood oral polio vaccine supplemental immunization in Northern Nigeria
The impact of exposure to HPV related information and injunctive norms on young women's intentions to receive the HPV vaccine in China
Is Vaccine Hesitancy Affected by Distrust in the Healthcare System? A Study in Turkish Population
Decision making processes underlying avoidance of mandatory child vaccination in Croatia – a qualitative study
Health Risk Communication During Covid-19 Emergency in Italy
Trust in Doctors, Positive Attitudes, and Vaccination Behavior
Trust, Vaccine Hesitancy, and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Love and Fear
On the borderline of diabetes
‘I don’t know if I’m making the right decision’
Conflicting rationalities of risk
‘My baby does not even drink water yet’
How do lay people come to trust the Automatic External Defibrillator
The biographical approach
‘Do not eat fish more than twice a week’. Rational choice regulation and risk communication
Health, Risk and Society
Covid and Climate
Crime and risk
Bugs in the blog
Travel, roads, risks and volunteers
Why do people doubt vaccines? Predictors of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in Turkey
The risk society hypotheses
Social Divisions of Trust
Risk, responsibility and negative responses
Mobile phone masts, social rationalities and risk
Risk as zombie category
I Know That I Know
Agency in urgency and uncertainty. Vaccines and vaccination in European media discourses
Avoiding harm to others’ considerations in relation to parental measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination discussions – An analysis of an online chat forum
Keeping unsafe at home
Is it time for the sociology of health to abandon ‘risk’
Health risk communication and amplification
Looking beyond risk
Health professionals and the vaccine narrative
Factors in intention to get the Covid-19 vaccine change over time
Communicating about emerging infectious disease
Hopes, hesitancy and the risky business of vaccine development
Risk communication
‘Enlightened ones who think they’re smarter than decades of research.’ Emotional-discursive analysis of epidemic narratives during the 2024 Montreal measles outbreak
Towards a better understanding of risk-taking
The politics of picking
Using protection motivation theory to predict intention to adhere to official MMR vaccination recommendations in Switzerland
Social movements, knowledge and public policy
Immunities in the Covid age
H1N1 vaccination and health beliefs in a rural community in the Southeastern United States
The significance of folklore for vaccine policy
Trusting blindly can be the biggest risk of all
Developing a three-dimensional narrative to counter polio vaccine refusal in Charsadda
The continuity of care paradox in paediatric primary care
Navigating the (perceived) risk
Misunderstanding vaccine hesitancy
The Social Bifurcation of Reality
Vaccine resistances reconsidered
Bound by Proximity
Reframing Medicine’s Publics
Pêche à pied en sortie d’estuaire de Seine
Attitudes to vaccination
Dilemmas of a Vitalizing Vaccine Market
Risk Rationalities in Contemporary Social Work Policy and Practice
It’s Their Little Red Bible
The origins and consequences of administrative burdens in mass immunization programs
The vaccination debate in the 'post-truth' era
Governing through time
Examining Emergent Communities and Social Bots Within the Polarized Online Vaccination Debate in Twitter
Another Person's Peril
Experts and Anecdotes
Qualitative inquiry into reasons why vaccination messages fail
Children's health and the social theory of risk
If a rabbi did say 'you have to vaccinate,' we wouldn't
MMR talk' and vaccination choices
Rethinking the antivaccine movement concept
One of the greatest medical success stories
We are the heroes because we are ready to die for this country
Till Corona Sets Us Apart
Betrayal of Trust
Risk Communication and Public Health
Anti-vaccinationists past and present
Retracted
Making risk visible
'Life would be pretty dull without risk'
Varieties of risk
Genetically modified crops in the European Union
Creating Public Alienation
Patterns of vaccination acceptance
Perceptions of Legitimacy
I don't believe in needles
Integrating homeopathy and biomedicine
Normality, risk and the future
| Unique citing works | 89 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,05 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 88 |