Neighborhood political composition and personal belief exemptions from immunization requirements in California Kindergartens, 2000–2015

Estep, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.108

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“…A recent study of PBEs in California found an increasingly positive association between PBEs and the proportion of Republicans in census tracts (Estep 2018). We obtained precinct-level results for the 2012 presidential election from California’s Statewide Database (Statewide Database 2013).…”

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“…Previous studies have also found that PBEs tend to be lower in densely populated areas (Atwell et al 2010;Estep 2018;Richards et al 2013). We divided the total population based on U.S. Census Data (U.S. Census Bureau 2014) by the district area derived from district shapefiles to calculate population density in each district (1,000 residents/ square mile, logged).…”

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Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity

Estep

Greenberg

2020

Am Sociol Rev

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Cases of measles and other highly contagious diseases are rising in the United States. Public health experts blame the rise partly on the spatial concentration of parents declining to vaccinate their children, but researchers have given little attention to theorizing why this clustering occurs in particular communities. We argue that residential and school selection processes create “pockets of homogeneity” attracting parents inclined to opt out of vaccines. Structural features of these enclaves reduce the likelihood of harsh criticism for vaccine refusal and foster a false sense of protection from disease, making the choice to opt out seem both safe and socially acceptable. Examination of quantitative data on personal belief exemptions (PBEs) from school-based vaccination requirements in California schools and districts, as well as findings from parent interviews, provide empirical support for the theory. We discuss substantive implications for lawmakers and public health officials, as well as broader sociological contributions concerning neighborhood effects and residential sorting.

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Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity

Estep

Greenberg

2020

Am Sociol Rev

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“…( 2016 ) found that parents identifying as conservatives and moderates were significantly less likely to have fully vaccinated their children prior to the age of 2. Similarly, Estep ( 2018 ) found that personal belief exemptions (PBE) to routine childhood vaccinations were significantly higher in majority conservative neighborhoods. Researchers have also found that adolescent vaccination adherence for at least one dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV), tetanus, and meningococcal vaccine respectively, was significantly lower in states with a historical tendency to elect conservatives to office (Bernstein et al., 2016 ).…”

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Reliability but not bias: Developing a scale to measure preferred channels for risk information during the COVID pandemic

Lachlan

Gilbert

2022

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To develop a new measure of preferred sources for risk information, two studies asked respondents to indicate what channels they were reliant on for information about COVID‐19, from 25 news channels ranging across the political spectrum. Unexpectedly, dependencies clustered around level of reliability rather than the political orientation of the news channel. In other words, each cluster included media channels from both the left and right side of the political spectrum, while dependencies clustered into sources that varied by the degree to which their content is reliable. Participants who turned to lower reliability channels indicated lower risk perceptions, less accurate probability estimations, reduced vaccination intentions, and lower protective behavioral intentions. Those inclined to use higher reliability channels indicated higher risk perceptions, more accurate probability estimations, increased vaccination intentions, and higher protective behavioral intentions. These relationships are discussed in terms of implications for our understanding of source reliance and risk perception, information sufficiency, and implications for both future research and public health interventions.

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Conservative worldview and its influence on punishment and bioethical public health issues

Robinett

Malhotra²

2019

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health

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Neighborhood political composition and personal belief exemptions from immunization requirements in California Kindergartens, 2000–2015

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity

Opting Out: Individualism and Vaccine Refusal in Pockets of Socioeconomic Homogeneity

Reliability but not bias: Developing a scale to measure preferred channels for risk information during the COVID pandemic

Conservative worldview and its influence on punishment and bioethical public health issues

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