Vaccination benefits, risks and safety: the need for a complete picture.
Bull World Health Organ
; 78(2): 219-21, 2000.
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PIP: Since the first attempt at vaccination more than 200 years ago, debate has been ongoing about the relative benefits and risks. However, debate was overshadowed by the threat of crippling illness and death. Over the years, vaccination programs succeeded in its goals: eradication of smallpox, near eradication of polio, and control of other disease. Hence, in the absence of perceptible disease threats, concerns about the risks of vaccines dominate renewed debate. While immunization coverage and surveys suggest that the majority of parents readily accept vaccines, allegations of risk have greater impact than before and are more challenging to address. In view of this, proven or unproven, real or perceived risks must therefore not only be examined in the light of the best scientific information obtainable but responsibly communicated. In September 1997, a gathering of experts drafted a declaration concerning effective ways to communicate drug safety and described five principles on the issue. Overall, it is noted that merging better public education on appreciating benefit and risk issues, with extra care in maintaining an honest and open discourse on benefit and risk, can protect against the misinterpretation of information about vaccination, as well as the acceptance of misinformation.^ieng
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Vacunas
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Medición de Riesgo
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Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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Bull World Health Organ
Año:
2000
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Article
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Estados Unidos
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