[HTML][HTML] Attitudes to vaccination: a critical review

O Yaqub, S Castle-Clarke, N Sevdalis… - Social science & …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper provides a consolidated overview of public and healthcare professionals'
attitudes towards vaccination in Europe by bringing together for the first time evidence …

“Herd immunity”: a rough guide

P Fine, K Eames, DL Heymann - Clinical infectious diseases, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The term “herd immunity” is widely used but carries a variety of meanings. Some authors use
it to describe the proportion immune among individuals in a population. Others use it with …

High rates of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its association with conspiracy beliefs: a study in Jordan and Kuwait among other Arab countries

M Sallam, D Dababseh, H Eid, K Al-Mahzoum… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vaccination could be an effective strategy for slowing the spread of the current coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy could pose a serious problem for …

Intensity and frequency of extreme novel epidemics

M Marani, GG Katul, WK Pan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Observational knowledge of the epidemic intensity, defined as the number of deaths divided
by global population and epidemic duration, and of the rate of emergence of infectious …

Behavioural nudges increase COVID-19 vaccinations

H Dai, S Saccardo, MA Han, L Roh, N Raja, S Vangala… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Enhancing vaccine uptake is a critical public health challenge. Overcoming vaccine
hesitancy, and failure to follow through on vaccination intentions requires effective …

Modelling the influence of human behaviour on the spread of infectious diseases: a review

S Funk, M Salathé, VAA Jansen - Journal of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human behaviour plays an important role in the spread of infectious diseases, and
understanding the influence of behaviour on the spread of diseases can be key to improving …

The changing acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination in different epidemic phases in China: a longitudinal study

J Wang, X Lu, X Lai, Y Lyu, H Zhang, Y Fenghuang… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 vaccines have been conditionally used in a few countries, including China since
December 2020. The present study aimed to examine whether the acceptance of COVID-19 …

Learning from evidence in a complex world

JD Sterman - American journal of public health, 2006 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Policies to promote public health and welfare often fail or worsen the problems they are
intended to solve. Evidence-based learning should prevent such policy resistance, but …

Understanding the dimensions of anti-vaccination attitudes: The vaccination attitudes examination (VAX) scale

LR Martin, KJ Petrie - Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background Anti-vaccination attitudes are important predictors of vaccination behavior.
Existing measures of vaccination attitudes focus on specific age groups and/or particular …

[HTML][HTML] Autism spectrum disorders—a genetics review

JH Miles - Genetics in Medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Autism is an etiologically and clinically heterogeneous group of disorders, diagnosed solely
by the complex behavioral phenotype. On the basis of the high-heritability index, geneticists …