Paul Bramadat

Vaccine hesitancy: An overview

Despite being recognized as one of the most successful public health measures, vaccination is perceived as unsafe and unnecessary by a growing number of individuals. Lack of confidence in vaccines is now considered a threat to the success of vaccination programs. Vaccine hesitancy is believed to be responsible for decreasing vaccine coverage and an increasing risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks and epidemics. This review provides an overview of the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy. First, we will characterize vaccine hesitancy and suggest the possible causes of the apparent increase in vaccine hesitancy in the developed world. Then we will look at determinants of individual decision-making about vaccination.

Defiant Subjects: Religion in World Polity Theory and Public Discourse

Most cosmopolitan liberals might now consider it gauche to argue that the political forms and norms with which we are so comfortable are harbingers of something akin to Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history,” especially since the twin shocks of 2016—the election of Donald Trump in the USA and the victory of the Brexit campaign in the UK—suggest that we are witnessing in fact “the return of history” (Welsh 2017).

A Critical Conversation on Religious Diversity in China, Canada and India

An introduction to this special issue of SR, outlining the main issues addressed in the articles and in the conference at which earlier versions of each article were presented.

List of Tables and Figures

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