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Vaccination Hesitancy During a Public Health Crisis - Coggle Diagram
Vaccination Hesitancy During a Public Health Crisis
Lack of societal trust in health
Conspiracy theories
Bill Gates believe it could cause death (influence)
Peter Hotez; a certified doctor falsely reported that vaccination can cause autism
Science (contradiction)
Unregulated social media page, misinformation can be spread and taylored based on the person's preferences
CT are more likely to occur if it is a major event (heuristics) as opposed to minor events.
Individual/public health belief
Media influence (confirmation bias)
Lead to conspiracy theory beliefs
Potential Conflict
Individual right to choose possibly challenged
Public discourse
Riots and protests
People not causing protest and willing to vaccinate themselves and their children
Strong negative belief in side effects and intention of the pharmaceutical industry
Stigma towards unvaccinated
Lack of scientific understanding
Heuristics
Can affect both low and high in conspiracy theories
Confirmation bias
If they have previous hesitancy in vaccine, it is possible they will have the same opinion on other vaccines.
If other people shows signs of agreement, they will take that as a confirmation.
Stats ar e difficult and the general lay people do not understand, which can lead to misinterpretations of results; can spread throughut society (science illiteracy)