Lesson 3 How media affect vaccination
- Vaccination reach can be greatly affected by information presented in social media
- Non-experts provide wrong information about vaccination, causing vaccine hesitancy within the population
- Since social media are the main source of information, people are more likely to believe any kind of information that is provided
- The information provided can even cause stress to the population
- Not having enough knowledge can also cause the wrong judgement
- THUS
- Vaccine hesitancy is caused by not enough knowledge and information-necessary measures should be taken in order to educate people how to understand which news are fake and create customize public health information
