Mandate vaccination with care

Omer, Saad B.; Betsch, Cornelia; Leask, Julie

doi:10.1038/d41586-019-02232-0

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22 July 2019

Mandate vaccination with care

Governments that are considering compulsory immunizations must avoid stoking anti-vaccine sentiment, argue Saad B. Omer, Cornelia Betsch and Julie Leask.

Saad B. Omer⁰,
Cornelia Betsch¹ &
Julie Leask²

Saad B. Omer
1. Saad B. Omer is the director of the Yale Institute for Global Health; professor of medicine (infectious diseases) at Yale School of Medicine; and professor of epidemiology of microbial diseases at Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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Cornelia Betsch
1. Cornelia Betsch is professor of health communication at the University of Erfurt, Psychology and Infectious Diseases Lab, Erfurt, Germany.
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Julie Leask
1. Julie Leask is professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
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Nature 571, 469-472 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02232-0

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[5] Brewer, N. T., Chapman, G. B., Rothman, A. J., Leask, J. & Kempe, A. Psychol. Sci. Public Interest 18, 149–207 (2017).
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[6] Delamater, P. L. et al. Pediatrics 143, e20183301 (2019).
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[7] Pingali, S. C. et al. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 322, 49–56 (2019).
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[8] Bond, L., Davie, G., Carlin, J. B., Lester, R. & Nolan, T. Aust. N. Z. J. Public Health 26, 58–64 (2002).
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[9] Helps, C., Leask, J. & Barclay, L. J. Pub. Health Policy 39, 156–169 (2018).
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[10] Betsch, C. & Böhm, R. Eur. J. Public Health 26, 378–381 (2016).
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[11] World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. The Guide to Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP) (WHO, 2013).

[12] Poethko-Müller, C., Kuhnert, R., Gillesberg Lassen, S. & Siedler, A. [in German] Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz 62, 410–421 (2019).
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[13] Boyce, T. et al. Eurosurveillance 24, 1800204 (2019).
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[14] Degeling, C., Rychetnik, L., Street, J., Thomas, R. & Carter, S. M. Soc. Sci. Med. 179, 166–171 (2017).
Article PubMed Google Scholar

[15] Isaacs, D., Kilham, H., Leask, J. & Tobin, B. Vaccine 27, 615–618 (2009).
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[16] Mantadakis, E., Farmaki, E. & Buchanan, G. R. J. Pediatr. 156, 623–628 (2010).
Article PubMed Google Scholar

[17] Attwell, K., Drislane, S. & Leask, J. Vaccine 37, 2843–2848 (2019).
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[18] Halabi, S. & Omer, S. B. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 317, 471–472 (2017).
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[19] Attwell, K. et al. Vaccine 36, 7377–7384 (2018).
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[20] Lévy-Bruhl D. et al. Eurosurveillance 24, 1900301 (2019).
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