Vaccination decisions & communication
7 important questions on Vaccination decisions & communication
What is meant with the Betsch model?
What is meant with the four C model?
- Complacency: don't think they will get infected so prevention with a vaccine is not necessary
- Convenience: structural barriers such as availability, affordability, ability to understand (health literacy)
- Confidence
- Calculation: I will trust herd immunity so that I don't get the disease. However, if everyone does this we will have a problem
What makes the COVID-19 vaccine special?
- The vaccination is seen as a way back to normal
- Vaccines are developed more rapidly than others
- For young people: vaccination to protect others rather than themselves
- There is uncertainty about
- The protection duration
- The effect on transmission
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What is risk communication?
What is important for effective risk communication?
- Entails an exchange of information rather than a one-way flow
- Is informed by expert knowledge but is also adapted to public risk perception & information needs
- Enables decision making with sufficient, accessible, and understandable information
What are the 5 different aspects of perceptions of risk?
- 'Objective' characteristics of the risk
- 'Subjective' characteristics of the risk
- Trust in involved institutions
- Characteristics of the person
- Information flows
What is the effect of a crisis on risk communication?
- Time pressure
- Need to develop communication based on limited information
- Need to constantly adapt communication to changing situations
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