The emergence and persistence of the anti-vaccination movement.

Health Psychology, Vol 42(8), Aug 2023, 516-520; doi:10.1037/hea0001273Vaccine 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)
Source: Health Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research