What are examples of vaccine-preventable diseases?
Measles.
Mumps.
Rubella.
What are the benefits of vaccination?
Individual health.
Community and public health (herd immunity).
Economic and societal.
What is the COM-B model made up of?
Behaviour which can split into Capability, motivation and opportunity.
What are the 5 Cs in the model of vaccination?
Complacency.
Confidence.
Convenience/ constraint.
Calculation.
Collective responsibility.
What are some steps used to address vaccine hesitancy?
Diagnostic tools.
Communication approaches.
Community engagement.
Misinformation and disinformation.
Coercive techniques.
What is risk?
The probability that a hazard will give rise to harm.
What is absolute risk?
The actual probability of an event occurring in a population over a specified period.
What is relative risk?
the ratio of risk in the exposed (treatment) group compared to the unexposed (control) group.
What is risk perception and why is it important?
A mismatch between clinical risk estimated and patient perception can affect adherence and consent.
Effective clinical risk communication integrates scientific evidence with patients’ social realities, ensuring that information is meaningful, not merely numerical.
What is health literacy?
Mass media and social media can play a crucial role in shaping public knowledge of health and illness, also referred to as “health literacy”.
What is misinformation?
Misleading information that
is created and spread, regardless of whether there is an intent to deceive.
What is disinformation?
[Mis]information that is
created and spread with intent to deceive.
What is an infodemic?
too much information, including
false or misleading information, in digital and physical environments during a disease outbreak.
What are the 4 main principles of biomedical ethics?
Autonomy.
Beneficence.
Non-maleficence.
Justice.
What 5 things make up informed consent?
Consent-explicit or written.
Competence.
Comprehension.
Disclosure.
Voluntariness.
