 "I don't believe in needles": Qualitative aspects of a study into the uptake of infant immunisation in two english health authoritiesSuzanne J. New and Martyn L. Senior Social Science & Medicine, 1991, vol. 33, issue 4, 509-518 Abstract: This paper presents qualitative data to emerge from a largerly quantitative case-control study of the uptake of infant immunisation in two District Health Authorities in the North West of England. It was hypothesised that problems arising from transport and time-space constraints would distinguish the parents of those children who had missed appointments from those who had attented. However, most of these difficulties were experienced equally by both groups and so could not solely account for different immunisation behaviour. Rather, the groups could be distinguished further by their differing attitudes towards, and knowledge of, infant immunisation based on a wide range of personal experiences. The paper argues that it is a mistake to label parental decision-making as "irrational' when one takes into account the interaction between personal experience, differing levels of advice and the impact of constraints, notably gender role constraints, as they affect women with young children. Keywords: immunisation; health; experiences; gender; Salford/Lancaster (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:33:y:1991:i:4:p:509-518 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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