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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Vaccine safety"”.
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Inanspruchnahme von Impfungen bei Eltern in Kirgisistan : Empfehlungen für die Impfpolitik
… months of age ranged between 90 percent (measles vaccine) and 99 percent (first dose of polio vaccine). According to the MICS data, up-to-date coverage among children of 12 to 59 months of age was highest for vaccine against tuberculosis (99 percent) and lowest for vaccine against measles (95 …
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Saftey of Covid-19 Vaccines in Real World Studies
… people in the United States to receive COVID-19 vaccines and booster doses. As of December 7, 2022, approximately 68.5% of the world's population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. According to the census website, the majority of unvaccinated individuals express concerns about …
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Narcolepsy associated with Pandemrix influenza vaccine: A systematic review and meta-analysis
… narcolepsy and the Pandemrix pandemic influenza vaccine. This particular association has been one of the most studied presumed vaccine adverse effects of the last decade and it has greatly affected the discussion on vaccine safety and vaccine hesitancy still to this date. Despite several studies …
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The development and implementation of a heuristic for teaching reflective scientific skepticism within a socio-scientific issue instructional framework
… disease outbreak, genetically modified foods, or vaccine safety. Other times, as in the case of climate change denial, science ideas may be deliberately distorted in order to manipulate public opinion toward a special interest group's agenda. Citizens need functional scientific literacy that …
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Exploring vaccine decision-making to identify and address barriers to vaccine uptake in Ireland
… achievements of the last century. However, vaccine uptake rates worldwide remain sub-optimal. The vaccine decision-making process is complex and multifaceted and multiple barriers to vaccine uptake have already been identified. However, these barriers are highly variable and context …
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The politics of scientific practice in Taiwan: the hepatitis B control program
… these issues. The controversies over the safety of the hepatitis B plasma vaccine display the social contingency of scientific knowledge. On the basis of different concerns or political interests, numerous participants joined the scientists in interactively shaping and reshaping the …
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Vaccine policy & vaccine politics: an analysis of United States vaccine uptake by state-level school and childcare vaccination mandate policies and state-level election results
… costs. Despite overwhelming evidence supporting vaccine safety and effectiveness, skepticism and hostility toward childhood vaccination has grown in recent decades, and has recently become a partisan political issue in the US. Statewide vaccination mandates in schools and childcare centers have …
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Compensation for Vaccine Damage
… a major contributor to public health. Although vaccines have many benefits, there are people who claim that they or their infant children have been injured, often permanently and severely, by the powerful biological agents introduced into their bodies by vaccination. The object of this thesis is …
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The use of m-Health active participant centred (MAPC) systems to improve surveillance of adverse events following Immunization (AEFIs) in Zimbabwe
… feedback ultimately to improve public safety and trust in vaccines and the immunization programme. Each AEFI surveillance method has advantages and disadvantages. This thesis aimed to develop an evidence-based and empirical foundation to guide recommendations for the use of mHealth for …
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Assessing the Sensitivity of the Canadian Adverse Event Following Immunization Surveillance System ( CAEFISS)
<p><strong>Background</strong>: Vaccines are important to public health, but because of the way they are manufactured, their mechanism of action, and their indicated population, careful monitoring of their adverse events is necessary. Canada has a national surveillance system that collects reports …
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Childhood varicella vaccination: an evaluation of clinical effectiveness, safety and cost effectiveness in Ireland
… (chickenpox) is a common, highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease that mainly affects children. Although typically mild, serious complications requiring hospitalisation do occur. Varicella is also associated with significant productivity loss mainly due to absence from paid work for …
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Population Structure of Yellow Fever Virus: Influence of Viral Diversity on Vaccine Attenuation
… wild-type from serially passaged and attenuated vaccine strains. Using deep sequencing techniques, a comparison was made between the prototype West African YFV strain Asibi, and a commercial aliquot of the YFV 17D-204 vaccine. In silico methods revealed the vaccine to be of lower diversity than …