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Editor, Senior Moderator
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2013 Sep 11;9(12). [Epub ahead of print]
Vaccine acceptance: The UK perspective.
Ford JA, Mahgoub H, Shankar AG.
Source
Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health; University of East Anglia; Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
Abstract
The United Kingdom has had a long history with vaccine acceptability dating back to Edward Jenner's theory of small pox vaccination. More recently, the discredited, Wakefield study published in 1998 continues to cause MMR skepticism. In pregnant women pertussis vaccination has been considerably more successful than influenza vaccination. Influenza vaccine uptake in healthcare workers remains poor. The media, politicians, and health reforms have contributed to the mixed coverage for these vaccines. In this article we examine vaccine acceptability from a UK perspective, and consider the future impact this is likely to have on the introduction of rotavirus and shingles vaccine in the UK in 2013.
KEYWORDS:
MMR, UK, influenza, pertussis, rotavirus, shingles, vaccine acceptance
PMID:
24025731
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24025731
Vaccine acceptance: The UK perspective.
Ford JA, Mahgoub H, Shankar AG.
Source
Academic Clinical Fellow in Public Health; University of East Anglia; Norwich, Norfolk, UK.
Abstract
The United Kingdom has had a long history with vaccine acceptability dating back to Edward Jenner's theory of small pox vaccination. More recently, the discredited, Wakefield study published in 1998 continues to cause MMR skepticism. In pregnant women pertussis vaccination has been considerably more successful than influenza vaccination. Influenza vaccine uptake in healthcare workers remains poor. The media, politicians, and health reforms have contributed to the mixed coverage for these vaccines. In this article we examine vaccine acceptability from a UK perspective, and consider the future impact this is likely to have on the introduction of rotavirus and shingles vaccine in the UK in 2013.
KEYWORDS:
MMR, UK, influenza, pertussis, rotavirus, shingles, vaccine acceptance
PMID:
24025731
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24025731