Anti-vaccine movements - a form of social activity for health care, ignorance or diversion aimed at destabilizing the health situation? Part  1. Epidemiological safety. Vaccinations - pros and cons

CONCLUSIONS: In recent years in Poland, the activity of movements against vaccination has increased significantly, and their propaganda, through its negative impact on social attitudes, threatens to destabilize the epidemiological situation. Analysis of arguments used by the opponents of vaccination suggests a lack of reliable knowledge, religious overtones (addressed to people with fundamentalist personalities), or the ill-will attitudes of anti-vaccine individuals/groups used for their own purposes. Familiarization with the arguments of anti-vaccine propaganda is necessary in order to implement effective methods of fighting such attitudes and beliefs.PMID:33356059 | DOI:10.26444/aaem/126013

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