Communication and miscommunication of risk: understanding UK parents' attitudes to combined MMR vaccination.
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Abstract
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
Medical subject headings
- Attitude to Health
- Communication
- Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine
- Parents