Importance Parents hesitant to vaccinate their children may delay routine immunizations or
seek exemptions from state vaccine mandates. Recent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable …

Unvaccinated individuals pose a public health threat to communities. Research has
identified many factors associated with parental vaccine refusal and hesitancy toward …

Vaccination is one of the great achievements of the 20th century, yet persistent public-health
problems include inadequate, delayed, and unstable vaccination uptake. Psychology offers …

Vaccine hesitancy reflects concerns about the decision to vaccinate oneself or one's
children. There is a broad range of factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy, including the …

Vaccine hesitancy is currently recognized by the WHO as a major threat to global health.
Recently, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a growing interest in …

The state of the antivaccine movement in the United States: A focused examination of
nonmedical exemptions in states and counties | PLOS Medicine Skip to main content …

We discuss models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease
spreading to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not …

The measles outbreak at Disneyland in December 2014 spread to a half-dozen US states
and sickened 147 people. It is just one recent incident that the medical community blames …

Vaccines are among the most effective prevention tools available to clinicians. However, the
success of an immunization program depends on high rates of acceptance and coverage …

Neoliberal cultural frames of individual choice inform mothers' accounts of why they refuse
state-mandated vaccines for their children. Using interviews with 25 mothers who reject …