'An attempt to swindle nature': Press anti-immunisation reportage 1993-1997

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-26

  Leask, Julie Anne ^a   Chapman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILDHOOD; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MASS MEDIUM; PARENT;

EID: 0031859877     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.1998.tb01140.x     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Children's immunisation, Australia, April 1995. Cat. no. 4352.0. Canberra: ABS, 1996.
2. Communicable Diseases Network Australia and New Zealand. Canberra, 1998. Guidelines for the control of pertussis in Australia. In press.
3. Communicable Disease Surveillance. Commun Dis Intell 1997; 21: 324.
4. Bell JC, Whitehead P, Chey T, Smith W, Capon AG, Jalaludin B. The epidemiology of incomplete childhood immunization: an analysis of reported immunization status in outer western Sydney. J Paediatr Child Health 1993; 29: 384-8.
5. Essex C, Counsell AM, Geddis DC. Immunization status and demographic characteristics of New Zealand infants in the first 6 months of life. J Paediatr Child Health 1993; 29: 379-83.
6. Jones K. Fasher B, Hanson R, Burgess M, et al. Immunization status of casualty attenders: risk factors for non-compliance and attitudes to 'on the spot' immunization. J Paediatr Child Health 1992; 28: 451-4.
7. Cutts FT, Orenstein WA, Bernier RH. Causes of low preschool immunization coverage in the United States. Annu Rev Public Health 1992; 13: 385-98
8. Peckham C. The Peckham report. National Immunisation Study. Factors influencing immunisation uptake in childhood. Horsham, West Sussex: Action Research for the Crippled Child, 1989.
9. Li J, Taylor B. Factors affecting uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella immunisation. BMJ 1993; 307: 168-71.
10. Pearson M, Makowiecka K, Gregg J, Wollard J, et al. Primary immunisations in Liverpool: I: Who withholds consent? Arch Dis Child 1993; 69: 110-14.
11. Skinner J, March L, Simpson JM. A retrospective cohort study of childhood immunisation status in northern Sydney. Aust J Public Health 1995; 19: 58-63.
12. Hall R. Immunisation myths - workshop on responding to arguments against immunisation. Canberra: Public Health Association of Australia, March 1995.
13. Hall R. Immunisation myths and realities: responding to arguments against immunisation. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996.
14. http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/info/q96-22-1-htm.
15. Thompson S. Vaccination: protection at what price? Aust N Z J Public Health 1997; 21(Suppl): 1-8.
16. Macdonald H, Roder D. The planning, implementation and evaluation for an immunization promotion campaign in South Australia. Hygie 1985; 4: 13-16.
17. Zimicki S, Hornick RC, Verzosa CC, Hernandez JR, et al. Improving vaccination coverage in urban areas through a health communication campaign: the 1990 Philippine experience. Bull WHO 1994; 72: 409-22.
18. Paunio M, Virtanen M, Peltola H, Cantell K, et al. Increase of vaccination coverage by mass media and individual approach: Intensified measles, mumps, and rubella prevention program in Finland. Am J Epidemiol 1991; 133: 1152-9.
19. Harding C. Immunisation as depicted by the British national press. Community Med 1985; 7: 87-98.
20. Freed G, Katz SL, Clark SJ. Safety of vaccinations: Miss America, the media and public health. JAMA 1996: 276: 1869-72.
21. Gonzalez E. TV report on DTP galvanizes US pediatricians. JAMA 1982; 248: 12-14, 20-2.
22. Sutton S. Gill E. Immunisation uptake: the role of parental attitudes. London. Health Education Authority, 1993.
23. Griffith AH. Medicine and the media: vaccination against whooping cough. J Biol Standard 1981: 9: 475-82.
24. Harding CM. Whooping cough vaccination: the case presented by the British national press. Child Care Health Dev 1985; 11: 21-30.
25. Hinman AR. The pertussis vaccine controversy. Public Health Rep 1984: 99: 255-9.
26. Fleiss JL. Statistical methods for rates and proportions. 2nd edn. New York. Wiley, 1981.
27. Streiner DL, Norman GR. Health measurement scales: a practical guide to their development and use. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995
28. Milnes A. What about vaccination? The vaccination question plainly put and plainly answered. London: Allen, 1893.
29. Hutton AW. The vaccination question. London: Methuen, 1895.
30. White W. The story of a great delusion in a series of matter-of-fact chapters. London: Allen, 1885.
31. Booth A. A beautiful arm: a history of the vaccination delusion. London. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1909.
32. McBean E, The poisoned needle: suppressed facts about vaccination. Mokelumne Hill, California: Health Research, undated, circa 1956.
33. http://www.ozemail.com.au/~shotinfo.
34. Medley GF. Conflicts between the individual and communities in treatment and control. In: Isham VS, Medley GF, editors. Models for infectious human diseases: their structure and relation to data. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996: 336.
35. Zajonic RB. Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. J Pers Soc Psychol 1968; 9 (suppl): 1-27.
36. McGuire WJ. The effectiveness of supportive and refutational defenses in immunizing and restoring beliefs against persuasion. Sociometry 1961; 24: 184-97.
37. O'Keefe DJ. Persuasion: theory and research. London: Sage, 1990: 180.
38. Bird J. Author claims jab is a danger. Gladstone Observer [Queensland], 19 September, 1995.
39. Dalphinis J. Do immunisation defaulters know enough about immunisation? Health Visitor 1986; 59: 342-4.
40. Meszaros JR, Asch DA, Braon J, Hershey JC, et al. Cognitive processes and the decisions of some parents to forego pertussis vaccination for their children. J Clin Epidemiol 1996; 49: 697-703.
41. Rogers A, Pilgrim D. The risk of resistance: perspectives on the mass childhood immunisation program. In: Gabe J, editor. Medicine, health and risk: sociological approaches. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995: 73-90.
42. Rogers A, Pilgrim D. The pros and cons of immunisation. Health Care Anal 1995; 3: 99-107.
43. New S, Senior M. 'I don't believe in needles': qualitative aspects of a study into the uptake of infant immunisation in two English health authorities. Soc Sci Med 1991; 33: 509-18.
44. Stone DH. The difference between ideological and intellectual dissent. Health Care Anal 1995; 3: 111-13.
45. Freudenburg WR. Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabilistic risk assessment. Science 1988; 242: 44-9.
46. Calman KC, Royston GHD. Risk language and dialects. BMJ 1997; 315: 939-42.
47. Rogers R, Pilgrim A. Rational non-compliance with childhood immunisation: personal accounts of parents and primary health care professionals. London: Health Education Authority, London 1993.