Background: Increased acceptance and uptake of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines is very essential in containing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy a threat to public health containment infectious diseases. Aim: The main aim this study was review published articles regarding vaccine acceptability across all populations Africa. Materials methods: This narrative review. A...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to determine the willingness to receive the Influenza A(H1N1) vaccine and its determinants in a large group of university students. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a self-administered questionnairre based cross-sectional study. Students being educated at health and non-health faculties were invited to participate in this attitude survey. RESULTS A total of 974 studen...

UK pandemic influenza strategy focused on vaccination of high risk groups, although evidence shows that school-age children have the highest infection rates. Vaccination of children might be an additional strategy. We undertook a cross-sectional study amongst 149 parents of primary school children aged 4-7 years in Birmingham, UK to quantify intention to accept pandemic influenza vaccine and id...

Less than half the front line healthcare workers in England have received the seasonal flu vaccine so far this winter - but the figure is up dramatically on last year.

Lack of labeled training examples is a common problem for many applications. At the same time, there is often an abundance of labeled data from related tasks, although they have different distributions and outputs (e.g., different class labels, and different scales of regression values). In the medical domain, for example, we may have a limited number of vaccine efficacy examples against a new ...

No one really looks forward to getting a shot, but for the vast majority of people, vaccines are very safe. Some people experience mild side effects like soreness after receiving a vaccine, and rarely people report more serious problems. In your case, the best course of action is to tell your health provider about your previous symptoms, and then follow the provider's advice for future vaccinat...

No one really looks forward to getting a shot, but for the vast majority of people, vaccines are very safe. Some people experience mild side effects like soreness after receiving a vaccine, and rarely people report more serious problems. In your case, the best course of action is to tell your health provider about your previous symptoms, and then follow the provider's advice for future vaccinat...

PURPOSE Numerous studies using hypothetical vignettes have demonstrated decision biases or deviations from utility theory. Do people who commit biases in questionnaire studies make worse real-world decisions than do less biased people? METHODS Two hundred seventy university faculty and staff participated in a questionnaire study in which they reported whether they accepted a free influenza va...