Annotated Bibliography
‘Trust in vaccines: a cross-national study on the impact of welfare state policies on vaccination’
Myroslava Obodovska
1. David A. Shore. The Trust Crisis in Healthcare: Causes, Consequences, and Cures (2006), Published to Oxford Scholarship Online
The authors and the researchers of this book reveal the lack of trust in the U.S. healthcare system. Despite the fact that the researchers focus on the U.S. healthcare issues, this book describes the general state of trust in healthcare and its changes, which are important for my case study. In the chapter 'Trust in Vaccines' represents the author’s personal views how the decline in trust occurred, including sections on changes in policy, adverse events, myths about vaccines, misinformation, and incomplete science. In addition, the author suggests innovations and ways to enhance the trust in vaccination.
2. Dora Vargha, Chapter 3 Vaccination and the communist state: polio in Eastern Europe, pp.77-99; Britt a Lundgren and Martin Holmberg, Chapter 10 Pandemic flus and vaccination policies in Sweden pp.
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The survey examines perceptions of vaccine importance, safety, effectiveness, and religious compatibility among 65,819 individuals across countries. The authors study relationships between individual- and country-level socio-economic factors and vaccine attitudes. Using logistic hierarchical modelling, the researchers mark countries trends in vaccine safety perceptions and analyze socio-economic determinants of vaccine sentiments. In the article it is emphasized that public trust in vaccination is an important global health problem that affects not only low- and middle-income countries, but high-income countries. The authors convince that the lack trust in vaccines and immunization programs can lead to vaccine refusal, risking disease outbreaks and challenging immunization goals in high- and low-income