Contrasting the anti-vaccine prejudice: a public health perspective

• Main Authors: Paola Stefanelli (Author), Giovanni Rezza (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Although immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective health interventions, there has been always opposition to vaccines. This may be due to several factors, some of which are : 1) the vaccines are given to healthy individuals to prevent disease; 2) the perception of the vaccine val...