Learning from vaccine scares: MMR and beyond (12 Nov 2013)

UCL Minds

English - November 26, 2013 15:17 - 41 minutes - 76.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Lunch Hour Lectures - Autumn 2013

Dr Helen Bedford, UCL Institute of Child Health

After clean water, childhood immunisation is the most effective intervention for protecting children against infectious diseases. In the UK, vaccine uptake rates are high, in spite of some parents considering immunisation to be unnecessary or even detrimental to children's health and wellbeing. This lecture will review recent vaccine safety scares, and how we might learn from such events to ensure successful immunisation programmes in the future.

You can also watch this lecture on the UCLLHL YouTube channel at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93hCJrKI54

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