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Immunization and Vaccination
Vaccines have been recognized as one of the most successful public health measures. In this chapter, we provide a historical overview of immunization measures and discuss the basics of immunization and vaccination in the context of a pandemic outbreak. We will also discuss vaccine hesitancy, the fac...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124023/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15346-5_13 |
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description | Vaccines have been recognized as one of the most successful public health measures. In this chapter, we provide a historical overview of immunization measures and discuss the basics of immunization and vaccination in the context of a pandemic outbreak. We will also discuss vaccine hesitancy, the factors that lead to vaccine acceptance and refusal, the determinants of individual decision-making about vaccination, and strategies of how to approach it on an individual, community, and global level. |
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spelling | pubmed-71240232020-04-06 Immunization and Vaccination Hussain, Saira Psychiatry of Pandemics Article Vaccines have been recognized as one of the most successful public health measures. In this chapter, we provide a historical overview of immunization measures and discuss the basics of immunization and vaccination in the context of a pandemic outbreak. We will also discuss vaccine hesitancy, the factors that lead to vaccine acceptance and refusal, the determinants of individual decision-making about vaccination, and strategies of how to approach it on an individual, community, and global level. 2019-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7124023/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15346-5_13 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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title | Immunization and Vaccination |
title_full | Immunization and Vaccination |
title_fullStr | Immunization and Vaccination |
title_full_unstemmed | Immunization and Vaccination |
title_short | Immunization and Vaccination |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7124023/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15346-5_13 |
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