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The emergence and persistence of the anti-vaccination movement
Seth C Kalichman1, Lisa A Eaton1
1Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention and Policy (InCHIP), University of Connecticut.
Abstract:
Vaccine hesitancy is a significant threat to public health and the anti-vaccination movement has played a significant role in communicable disease outbreaks. This commentary discusses the history and tactics of vaccine denialists and anti-vaccination groups. Anti-vaccination rhetoric is robust on social media platforms, and vaccine hesitancy has proven to impede the uptake of both established and new vaccines. Effective counter-messaging is needed to preemptively discredit vaccine denialists and reduce their influence on vaccine uptake. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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