The influence of local political trends on childhood vaccine completion in North Carolina

Cierra Buckman, Indran C. Liu, Lindsay Cortright, Dmitry Tumin and Salma Syed

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 260, issue C

Abstract: In North Carolina (NC), a political swing state that permits both medical and religious exemptions to school vaccination, rapid changes in the electorate have coincided with a vigorous political debate over vaccine laws and an increase in the number of exemptions claimed from vaccine requirements.

Keywords: Vaccine hesitancy; Vaccine exemption; Political trends; North Carolina; Political affiliation; Childhood vaccines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113187

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