Speaking to hearts before minds? public health messages aligned with people’s political intuitions may not increase vaccination uptake

Kudrna, Laura and Schmidtke, Kelly Ann (2020) Speaking to hearts before minds? public health messages aligned with people’s political intuitions may not increase vaccination uptake. British Politics and Policy at LSE (15 Oct 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

What influences people’s attitudes towards vaccination? Laura Kudrna and Kelly Ann Schmidtke report on an experiment seeking to determine whether messages aligned with people’s politics influenced their intentions to take up the influenza vaccine. They find that the messages had no substantial effect.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2020 10:45
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 14:16
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/107347

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