Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.

Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and "resistance" to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccinati...

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Autores principales:	Rashid S Hussain, Stephen T McGarvey, Tabassam Shahab, Lina M Fruzzetti
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8fbc3adec5c54f54b12a5acdc5a8a5182021-11-18T08:13:49ZFatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0046274https://doaj.org/article/8fbc3adec5c54f54b12a5acdc5a8a5182012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23050003/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and "resistance" to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy of the vaccine. This doubt was exacerbated in a few cases as families were uninformed of the use of monovalent mOPV1, while P3 cases continued to occur. Many families had also come to believe that their children had been adversely affected by OPV after being told the vaccine carried no risk. Though polio is now largely eradicated in India, with only a single case in 2011, greater transparency about changes with vaccination policy may need to be considered to build trust with the public in future eradication programs.Rashid S HussainStephen T McGarveyTabassam ShahabLina M FruzzettiPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 9, p e46274 (2012)
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description	Shifting polio eradication strategies may have generated fear and "resistance" to the eradication program in Aligarh, India during the summer of 2009. Participant observation and formal interviews with 107 people from May to August 2009 indicated that the intensified frequency of vaccination was correlated with patients' doubt in the efficacy of the vaccine. This doubt was exacerbated in a few cases as families were uninformed of the use of monovalent mOPV1, while P3 cases continued to occur. Many families had also come to believe that their children had been adversely affected by OPV after being told the vaccine carried no risk. Though polio is now largely eradicated in India, with only a single case in 2011, greater transparency about changes with vaccination policy may need to be considered to build trust with the public in future eradication programs.
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author	Rashid S Hussain Stephen T McGarvey Tabassam Shahab Lina M Fruzzetti
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title	Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.
title_short	Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.
title_full	Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.
title_fullStr	Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.
title_full_unstemmed	Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.
title_sort	fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in india: a study of social resistance to vaccination.
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Fatigue and fear with shifting polio eradication strategies in India: a study of social resistance to vaccination.

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