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Communication and miscommunication of risk: understanding UK parents' attitudes to combined MMR vaccination
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In this article on the public perception of risks Paul Bellaby considers three examples of risks to children in the UK—an insignificant risk (autism caused by MMR vaccine), a real but probably small risk (vCJD from BSE), and a real and demonstrably larger risk (injuries from road crashes) and contrasts the perceptions of the risks by parents
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bellaby, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Salford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Bellaby, Paul
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2003-09-25
- Volume
- 327
- Issue
- 7417
- Pages
- 725-728
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC200809
- OpenAlex
- W1967126649
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 26.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
- University of Salford Institutional Repository (University of Salford) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Social Sciences › Health › Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Keywords
- risk communication, risk perception, MMR vaccine, autism spectrum disorder, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, road traffic injuries, parental attitudes
- MeSH terms
- Accidents, Traffic, Adult, Attitude to Health, Child, Communication, Humans, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome, Parents, Perception, Physician-Patient Relations, Risk Factors, Risk Assessment, Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
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