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Attitudes towards Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination in the Latin American Andean Region

This commentary explores the distribution of human papilloma virus (HPV) and HPV-related diseases, and factors affecting attitudes towards HPV, HPV-related diseases, and HPV vaccination in the Latin American Andean region. Lack of knowledge of HPV, known negative attitudes or incorrect assumptions a...

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Autor principal: Nwanodi, Oroma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5618183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28885601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare5030055
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description This commentary explores the distribution of human papilloma virus (HPV) and HPV-related diseases, and factors affecting attitudes towards HPV, HPV-related diseases, and HPV vaccination in the Latin American Andean region. Lack of knowledge of HPV, known negative attitudes or incorrect assumptions about HPV, HPV-related diseases, and HPV vaccination provide a basis upon which to develop targeted HPV awareness and preventive health media campaigns. For maximal effect, media campaigns should use the internet, radio, and television to address health care providers, parents, and students. Additional programming can be developed for clinics to use in-house with their clients. Ministries of Education, Finance, and Health all have roles to play to increase national HPV, HPV-related diseases, and HPV vaccination awareness.
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spelling pubmed-56181832017-09-29 Attitudes towards Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination in the Latin American Andean Region Nwanodi, Oroma Healthcare (Basel) Communication This commentary explores the distribution of human papilloma virus (HPV) and HPV-related diseases, and factors affecting attitudes towards HPV, HPV-related diseases, and HPV vaccination in the Latin American Andean region. Lack of knowledge of HPV, known negative attitudes or incorrect assumptions about HPV, HPV-related diseases, and HPV vaccination provide a basis upon which to develop targeted HPV awareness and preventive health media campaigns. For maximal effect, media campaigns should use the internet, radio, and television to address health care providers, parents, and students. Additional programming can be developed for clinics to use in-house with their clients. Ministries of Education, Finance, and Health all have roles to play to increase national HPV, HPV-related diseases, and HPV vaccination awareness. MDPI 2017-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5618183/ /pubmed/28885601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare5030055 Text en © 2017 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_sort attitudes towards human papilloma virus vaccination in the latin american andean region
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5618183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28885601
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare5030055
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