Tuesday, November 01, 2011

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT VACCINES?

Lack of first-hand experience with diseases such as polio, measles and rubella may be softening support for vaccination among doctors, a study suggests.
Researchers interviewed 551 health providers, mostly doctors but also some nurse practitioners. They found that significantly more of the older doctors supported vaccines than did their younger colleagues. Overall support for vaccines remains high, with 89.4% of the health providers considering them highly effective.
But each five-year age cohort was slightly less enthusiastic about vaccines than the previous one. Younger doctors, the authors explained, have grown up at a time when these diseases are rare, making it seem less troubling for any one person to reject vaccination.
"Are Younger Doctors More Skeptical of Vaccines? Evaluation of a Provider Cohort Effect Regarding Immunication Beliefs," Michelle J. Mergler and Saad B. Omer, presented at the annual conference of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (October)
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