Hesitação/recusa vacinal: um assunto em pauta – Editorial

Eleonor G. Lago

doi:10.15448/1980-6108.2018.4.32808

Authors

Eleonor G. Lago School of Medicine of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1229-4029

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-6108.2018.4.32808

Keywords:

vaccine refusal, vaccination hesitancy, anti vaccine movement, anti vaccination groups, immunization programs, physician patient relationship.

Abstract

Although the advent of childhood vaccination is considered the scientific achievement of the twentieth century with the greatest impact on public health, the issue of vaccine hesitancy/refusal continues. The World Health Organization, recognizing the increasing risk of this problem and the need for special attention, has created, within the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, a working group specially focused on the subject, the SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy. A recent report from this group concluded that research on the reasons and degree of vaccine hesitancy/refusal is important and can help inform and refine the approaches to be implemented at both national and subnational levels. Within this context, Scientia Medica publishes in this issue a survey carried out in a region in the north of Portugal, which identified cases of vaccine refusal in all social classes and investigated their motives.

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Author Biography

Eleonor G. Lago, School of Medicine of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, RS

Graduation in Medicine (1972) and medical residency in Pediatrics (1973/1974), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Specialization in Pediatrics, with emphasis on Neonatology and Congenital Infections. PhD (2006) and MSc (2000) in Pediatrics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Full Professor at the School of Medicine of PUCRS and Coordinator of the Journals Division of the University Publishing House of PUCRS (Edipucrs). Member of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) and the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC).

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1229-4029

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