Vaccination, Anti-Vaccination Movements: Do More Harm than Good

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2024-2025

Thematik

Vaccination belongs to one of the most successful modern health care programmes that decreased significantly the number of severe infectious diseases. In today's world experts are unable to compete with the media. Several delusions circulate infiltrating the public opinion related to vaccines. The most susceptible target audience of these beliefs are the half-educated laymen who believe in the media created pseudoscience. The activity of stubborn anti-vaccine minorities can be dangerous because that may open up new chances of the spread of infectious diseases.

The objective of the course is to deepen the knowledge of vaccinations concerning the background, benefits, achievements and failures, and the course also serves as a thought provoking initiation for practitioners relating to possible actions against the anti-vaccination movements.

Vorlesungen

• 1. History of vaccines and anti-vaccination movements. - Szendi Katalin
• 2. Epidemiology of infectious diseases, morbidity and mortality rates before and after vaccine introduction. Is there any benefit of vaccination? - Szendi Katalin
• 3. Epidemiological studies on vaccination, are there any at all? - Szendi Katalin
• 4. Morbidity, mortality, incidence, prevalence. - Szendi Katalin
• 5. Statistics, data availability, official sources. - Szendi Katalin
• 6. Are there enough and reliable data to prove the effectiveness or safety of vaccines? - Szendi Katalin
• 7. Groups of vaccinations. - Szendi Katalin
• 8. Types of vaccinations. - Szendi Katalin
• 9. Why are they compulsory? - Szendi Katalin
• 10. Are there any unnecessary ones (e.g. BCG)? - Szendi Katalin
• 11. Is it possible that the only purpose of the pharmaceutical industry is to increase their profits? - Szendi Katalin
• 12. The function of vaccination. - Szendi Katalin
• 13. Types of immunity. Is artificial induction of immunity good for our immune system? Does it result in more benefits if the diseases are fought off in a natural way? - Szendi Katalin
• 14. The efficiency of vaccines. - Szendi Katalin
• 15. Do the European countries with better health indicators also have better epidemiological situation than Hungary? - Szendi Katalin
• 16. Questions of herd immunity. - Szendi Katalin
• 17. Vaccine effectiveness. Are there any positive health effects, or just does the government want to make us believe in counterfeit statistical data? - Szendi Katalin
• 18. Vaccination safety, components. Are the ingredients in vaccines dangerous? Do they cause any harm to health? Diversity of conspiracy theories. - Szendi Katalin
• 19. Risks of vaccines, vaccination health hazards. Do the vaccines do more harm than good? MMR and autism. Mercury and autism. Aluminium and autism. - Szendi Katalin
• 20. Legal background. The legal regulation of vaccines. - Szendi Katalin
• 21. The pros and cons of compulsory vaccination. What is the point of it? The reason for the existence of free choice. - Szendi Katalin
• 22. Anti-vaccination activities in Hungary and abroad.         - Szendi Katalin
• 23. Do we have to deal with the anti-vaccination movements? Anti-vaccination movements, hazards, duties. - Szendi Katalin
• 24. Psychology of the anti-vaccination attitudes. - Szendi Katalin

Praktika

Seminare

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

Educational material uploaded on Teams.

Skript

Empfohlene Literatur

Stanley A. Plotkin. History of Vaccine Development. Springer 2011.

Vaccine Fact Book 2013. http://www.phrma.org/sites/default/files/pdf/PhRMA_Vaccine_FactBook_2013.pdf

WHO, UNICEF, World Bank. State of the world's vaccines and immunization, 3rd ed., Geneva, World Health Organization, 2009.

Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

Participation in lectures is obligatory which is registered.

Absences should not exceed 15% (4x45 min). Otherwise signature of grade book is denied.

Semesteranforderungen

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Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

There are no make-up classes.

Prüfungsfragen

Teams

Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen