Communication and miscommunication of risk: understanding UK parents' attitudes to combined MMR vaccination

AUTOR(ES)

Bellaby, Paul

FONTE

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.

RESUMO

In this article on the public perception of risks Paul Bellaby considers three examples of risks to children in the UK—an insignificant risk (autism caused by MMR vaccine), a real but probably small risk (vCJD from BSE), and a real and demonstrably larger risk (injuries from road crashes) and contrasts the perceptions of the risks by parents

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