Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1)

Olivier Chanel, Stéphane Luchini (), Sébastien Massoni and Jean-Christophe Vergnaud
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Stéphane Luchini: GREQAM-IDEP

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Abstract: Vaccination campaigns to prevent the spread of epidemics are successful only if the targeted populations subscribe to the recommendations of health authorities. However, because compulsory vaccination is hardly conceivable in modern democracies, governments need to convince their populations through efficient and persuasive information campaigns. In the context of the swine-origin A (H1N1) 2009 pandemic, we use an interactive study among the general public in the South of France, with 175 participants, to explore what type of information can induce change in vaccination intentions at both aggregate and individual levels. We find that individual attitudes to vaccination are based on rational appraisal of the situation, and that it is information of a purely scientific nature that has the only significant positive effect on intention to vaccinate

Keywords: France; experiment; interactive; information; vaccination; influenza A (H1N1); attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2010-11
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Journal Article: Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: Swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) (2011)
Working Paper: Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine origin influenza A (H1N1) (2011)
Working Paper: Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine origin influenza A (H1N1) (2011)
Working Paper: Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) (2010)
Working Paper: Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) (2010)
Working Paper: Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) (2010)
Working Paper: Impact of information on intentions to vaccinate in a potential epidemic: swine-origin Influenza A (H1N1) (2010)
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