Anti-vaccine movements - health care, ignorance or a diversion aimed at destabilizing the health situation? Part 2. Contemporary conditions for the functioning and development of anti-vaccination movements

CONCLUSIONS: Increased activity and effective propaganda carried out by anti-vaccination movements is possible, among others, thanks to the development of the so-called 2nd generation of the Internet (Web2), enabling the free and difficult to control flow of information. Increasing data indicate that the activity of anti-vaccine movements may be a form of organized action (diversion in cyberspace) aimed at social, epidemiological, and economic destabilization of selected countries and regions. Among the various forms of combating anti-vaccination movements currently used are awareness-raising activities and restrictions on freedom on the Internet by monitoring information flow, blocking materials containing selected phrases or keywords associated with anti-vaccine propaganda, and sanctions imposed on people avoiding vaccination.PMID:33356060 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/126014

Source: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine : AAEM - December 28, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Barbara Maria Ko łłątaj Witold Piotr Ko łłątaj Irena Dorota Karwat Jaros ław Sobieszczański Lech Panasiuk Source Type: research