Monitoring the gap between evidence and vaccination behaviour by sampling the location-specific consumption of health information from news and social media

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1128968

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Vaccination programs have saved millions of lives in the last decade but vaccine refusal threatens their success. We propose new methods for tracking social media to measure how people in different locations are exposed to different information about vaccines from the media and other sources. This will help us understand why some communities appear to be more susceptible to vaccine hesitancy, and help public health organisations more effectively address the problem of vaccine acceptance.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $476,648.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

geographic variations | information science/medical informatics | social epidemiology | surveillance | vaccine-preventable diseases

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