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What maintains parental support for vaccination when challenged by anti-vaccination messages? A qualitative studyJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
Vaccine 24:7238-45. 2006..Stories about people affected by vaccine-preventable diseases need to re-enter the public discourse...- Public opponents of vaccination: a case studyJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, Children s Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead 2145, Australia
Vaccine 21:4700-3. 2003..We conclude by suggesting how health professionals might respond in the public arena... 
How do general practitioners persuade parents to vaccinate their children? A study using standardised scenariosJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Australia
N S W Public Health Bull 20:119-24. 2009..To understand how general practitioners (GPs) address parental concerns about childhood immunisation using standardised scenarios...- Consent and public engagement in an era of expanded childhood immunisationJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children s Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 47:603-7. 2011..Then, we broaden this discussion to wider public engagement by suggesting how the public - the bearers of vaccine risk and benefit - can be better involved in immunisation policy... 
"Will they just pack up and leave?" - attitudes and intended behaviour of hospital health care workers during an influenza pandemicHolly Seale
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 9:30. 2009..The aim of this study was to explore HCWs knowledge, attitudes and intended behaviour towards pandemic influenza...- Community perceptions about infectious disease risk posed by new arrivals: A qualitative studyJulie Leask
University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 185:591-3. 2006..To report on perceptions about the risk of infectious diseases from new arrivals to Australia arising from a wider study of mothers' attitudes to childhood vaccination... - Implementation of the Australian HPV vaccination program for adult women: qualitative key informant interviewsJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
Vaccine 27:5505-12. 2009..Although challenging, delivery of HPV vaccination to adult women is achievable and the Australian experience provides useful information for countries commencing HPV vaccination programs in this population... - Evidence for autism in folklore?J Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children s Hospital at Westmead and the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Arch Dis Child 90:271. 2005 - "All manner of ills": The features of serious diseases attributed to vaccinationJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
Vaccine 28:3066-70. 2010..Any attempt to re-frame erroneous claims about vaccination first requires an identification of the deeper anxieties in which they are located... - Are general practice registrars prepared for immunisation? A cross sectional surveyJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, and the University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust Fam Physician 33:665-7. 2004..To describe undergraduate formal training on immunisation as remembered by general practice registrars and its perceived helpfulness... - Media coverage of health issues and how to work more effectively with journalists: a qualitative studyJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children s Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:535. 2010..Much research has focused on how the media frames health issues. This study sought to explore how journalists in Australia select and shape news on health issues... - Making influenza vaccination mandatory for health care workers: the views of NSW Health administrators and clinical leadersJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children s Hospital at Westmead
N S W Public Health Bull 21:243-7. 2010.... - Vaccination and risk communication: summary of a workshop, Arlington Virginia, USA, 5-6 October 2000J Leask
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine and National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 38:124-8. 2002..Finally, the potential risks and benefits of engaging with the anti-vaccination lobby are outlined... - Immunisation attitudes, knowledge and practices of health professionals in regional NSWJulie Leask
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases NCIRS, The Children s Hospital at Westmead and the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Aust N Z J Public Health 32:224-9. 2008..It also compared these factors between the areas and between the health professional groups... - 'The cold hard facts' immunisation and vaccine preventable diseases in Australia's newsprint media 1993-1998Julie Leask
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
Soc Sci Med 54:445-57. 2002.... - Focus group composition: a comparison between natural and constructed groupsJ Leask
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, New South Wales
Aust N Z J Public Health 25:152-4. 2001..To provide insight into the effects of focus group composition... - Media coverage of anthrax vaccination refusal by Australian Defence Force personnelDeonna Ackermann
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
Vaccine 23:411-7. 2004..CONCLUSION: Marked shifts in the representation of vaccine opponents and proponents possibly contributed to the rapid diminishment of media interest in the story... - Immunization myths and realities: responding to arguments against immunizationC R Macintyre
Children s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 39:487-91. 2003..This involves good communication; listening, empathy and tailoring advice to the specific concerns of the parent. Finally, health professionals need to provide consistent messages based on solid research evidence... - Effects of a web based decision aid on parental attitudes to MMR vaccination: a before and after studyCate Wallace
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, University of Sydney, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
BMJ 332:146-9. 2006..Residual concerns about autism and bowel disease and the rare chance of serious complications remained as attitudinal barriers to some parents... - Attitudes amongst Australian hospital healthcare workers towards seasonal influenza and vaccinationHolly Seale
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Influenza Other Respi Viruses 4:41-6. 2010..Although a safe and effective vaccine is available, there is little Australian data on reasons for poor compliance, especially amongst allied health and ancillary support staff... - Barriers to access to health care for newly resettled sub-Saharan refugees in AustraliaMohamud Sheikh-Mohammed
School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 185:594-7. 2006..These groups provide an opportunity to deliver health education and health information that would improve their access to health services... - Do they accept compulsory vaccination? Awareness, attitudes and behaviour of hospital health care workers following a new vaccination directiveHolly Seale
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Level 2, Samuels Building, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Vaccine 27:3022-5. 2009..Seventy-eight per cent supported the policy; 13% neither supported nor opposed it; and 4% opposed it. This survey provides an early, broad indication of the level of understanding and the attitudes of the HCWs towards the new directive... - Examining the knowledge of and attitudes to pandemic influenza among general practice staffHolly Seale
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Med J Aust 192:378-80. 2010..To assess the views, needs and intended behaviour of general practitioners and practice nurses (PNs) regarding pandemic influenza... - The MMR vaccination and autism controversy in United Kingdom 1998-2005: inevitable community outrage or a failure of risk communication?David C Burgess
NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
Vaccine 24:3921-8. 2006..Coverage rates fell dramatically, and did not start to recover until 2004. Could this public reaction have been predicted?.. - Improving uptake of MMR vaccinePeter McIntyre
BMJ 336:729-30. 2008 - Tapping midwives' views about the neonatal hepatitis B vaccine: how welcome is a move towards a health promoting orientation?Christine Pearce
Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service
Health Promot J Austr 19:161-3. 2008..This pilot exploratory study was undertaken to gain some understanding of attitudes and perceptions among midwives towards administering and promoting the neonatal dose of the hepatitis B vaccine... - Refusal of parents to vaccinate: dereliction of duty or legitimate personal choice?Peter McIntyre
Med J Aust 178:150-1. 2003