信息和疫苗犹:宽带互联网的作用
Sofia Amaral-Garcia1, Mattia Nardotto2, Carol Propper3
1European Commission - Joint Research Center, i3health/Universite libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Health economics
|May 27, 2024
概括
互联网接入显著影响了麻疹,疹和红疹 (MMR) 疫苗的接种. 尽管最初的OLS估计,内源性分析显示,互联网扩散的增加导致MMR疫苗接种率大幅下降.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
- 卫生社会学 卫生社会学
背景情况:
- 互联网的快速传播与公众对麻疹,疹和红疹 (MMR) 疫苗的关注期相吻合.
- 一篇广为宣传的,但虚假的医学文章将MMR疫苗与自闭症联系起来,为公共卫生干预创造了一个具有挑战性的环境.
研究的目的:
- 调查互联网传播对英格兰MMR疫苗接种的因果关系.
- 了解不同程度的社会经济地位如何影响互联网传播对疫苗接种决策的影响.
主要方法:
- 使用普通最小方程 (OLS) 回归初步估计互联网透率和MMR疫苗接种率之间的关系.
- 采用方法来解决互联网访问的内在性,以建立更准确的因果推理.
- 分析了2000年至2011年间英国的数据,这是互联网显著增长的时期.
主要成果:
- 最初的OLS估计表明互联网传播和疫苗接种率之间存在积极的关联.
- 考虑到内源性后,互联网透率的标准偏差增加与MMR疫苗接种率大约下降20%有关.
- 技术人才比例较高,贫困程度较低的地区对互联网传播的负面反应更为明显.
结论:
- 互联网传播,特别是在错误信息的背景下,可能会对像MMR疫苗这样的公共卫生干预措施产生负面影响.
- 高层社会经济群体可能更容易对在线虚假信息作出反应,导致疫苗接种率下降.
- 决策者在应对疫苗犹时应该考虑在线信息和社会经济因素的作用.
相关概念视频
Current Trends in Nursing II
1.2K
Trends in nursing are multifactorial and associated with changes in society, within the nursing profession, and in other professions. Notably, telehealth and remote nursing contribute to successful healthcare delivery for numerous patients and help reduce stress for nurses due to nursing shortages. Nurses can reach patients, monitor their conditions, and interact with them using computers, audio, visual accessories, and telephones—for example, remote patient monitoring systems. Likewise,...
1.2K
Issues And Trends In Healthcare Delivery System
5.6K
The issues and trends in healthcare delivery are constantly changing. The COVID-19 pandemic is one recent issue that wreaked havoc on healthcare systems, causing a shortage of healthcare workers, high demand for medicines and supplies, and increased medical expenditure due to a lack of insurance. Other issues include rising healthcare costs and care fragmentation.
Cost Containment
Payment for healthcare services has historically promoted adoption of costly and often unnecessary or inefficient...
Cost Containment
Payment for healthcare services has historically promoted adoption of costly and often unnecessary or inefficient...
5.6K
Health Literacy
4.0K
Health literacy is an individual's or a community's capacity to comprehend, receive, read, and use relevant healthcare information and services. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2018) defines health literacy as the cognitive and social skills that determine the ability of individuals to gain access to, understand, and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health. As a result, the WHO helps individuals manage long-term health concerns, participate in preventative...
4.0K
Vaccinations
44.4K
Overview
44.4K
Bullying
8.4K
A modern form of aggression is bullying. As you learn in your study of child development, socializing and playing with other children is beneficial for children’s psychological development. However, as you may have experienced as a child, not all play behavior has positive outcomes. Some children are aggressive and want to play roughly. Other children are selfish and do not want to share toys. One form of negative social interactions among children that has become a national concern is...
8.4K
Principles of Disease Surveillance
91
Disease surveillance is the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data essential to the planning, implementation, and evaluation of public health practice. This process integrates data dissemination to entities responsible for preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. Surveillance systems provide crucial information for action, helping public health authorities make informed decisions to manage and prevent outbreaks, ensure public safety, optimize...
91


