Vaccination policies in Europe: Common goals, diverse approaches and public doubts

Petrarca, Laura; Midulla, Fabio; Openshaw, Peter

doi:10.1002/eji.201870015

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“…In relation to vaccines and health at a national and, no less important, global level, it is part of our social responsibility to take a strong stand, engage in public debate and promote education. The recent experience in Italy, the activities undertaken by other Immunological Societies such as those of the British Society for Immunology as highlighted in the accompanying article covering a brief history of vaccination through to current European vaccination policies and the engagement of immunologists in GAVI , including the two of us, conveys the important message that indeed we can have an impact.…”

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Mandatory vaccination in Italy: Time for engagement of immunologists

Mantovani

Santoni

2018

Eur J Immunol

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Mandatory vaccination in Italy: Time for engagement of immunologists

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Santoni

2018

Eur J Immunol

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“…Last, but by no mean least, during the 3 months, I also had the chance to write a news item for the European Journal of Immunology covering the different vaccine policies in Europe under the supervision of Peter Openshaw and Fabio Midulla [ 2 ].…”

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These fellowships are focused on young scientists and clinicians in the early stages of their research career in respiratory medicine. They provide a unique opportunity to visit a host institution in a country other than the candidate’s own for 1–3 months, with the aim of learning a research technique not available in the home institution. The call for applications will be open in the summer and will close on October 1, 2018.

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“…In November 2017, the Italian Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of the law on mandatory vaccinations, declaring it to be legitimate(Petrarca et al 2018; Ministero della Salute 2017).1 Preliminary results on the first years after the promulgation of the law show an increase in vaccination coverage, suggesting a positive influence of said regulation(D'Ancona et al 2018;Signorelli et al 2018) …”

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Social BI to understand the debate on vaccines on the Web and social media: unraveling the anti-, free, and pro-vax communities in Italy

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Gallinucci

Golfarelli

2019

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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The debate on vaccines in Italy has greatly intensified in recent years. The promulgation of a law that makes a set of ten vaccines obligatory has pushed this formerly niche topic to a mainstream level. The law itself is an answer to the progressive erosion of the vaccine coverage. The debate has become a political topic with three main positions: supporters of the importance of vaccines, opponents who claim that vaccines are harmful to health, and the new position of those contesting only the mandatoriness of vaccinations. In this paper, we build on a Social Business Intelligence architecture to propose an in-depth analysis of the emerging social debate. Our analysis spans over more than three years, covering all the Web and social media. We adopt several techniques, including community detection and text analytics, to understand the evolution of the debate, the discussed topics, and the structure and peculiarities of the main social communities. The study reveals that the communities are well characterized, especially from a political perspective, and provides useful insights to official health organizations to improve their communication strategies.

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Vaccination policies in Europe: Common goals, diverse approaches and public doubts

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Mandatory vaccination in Italy: Time for engagement of immunologists

Mandatory vaccination in Italy: Time for engagement of immunologists

Zooming in on the ERS fellowships and the International Congress

Social BI to understand the debate on vaccines on the Web and social media: unraveling the anti-, free, and pro-vax communities in Italy

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