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Making decisions about immunisation :
What is immunisation?
Why do we immunise?
Making the decision

Information for making decisions :
What type of information do parents want?
Information from the media
Information from health professionals
Information from friends, family & other parents
Other information sources
Messages to health professionals
Messages to other parents

Considering risk? :
Weighing up the risk
Parents' concerns about MMR
Parents' views of the diseases
Parents' attitudes to childhood immunisation

Experiences of immunisation :
Deciding whether to give my child DTaP/IPV/Hib, Men C and pneumococcal vaccinesDTaP/IPV/Hib, BCG vaccine
Deciding to give my child MMR
Deciding not to give my child MMR
Reactions to DTaP/ IPV/ Hib, BCG vaccines
Reactions to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine

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For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. Talking to other parents whose child had MMR and using the Internet to gather information on both sides of the argument helped her to make a decision about her daughter's MMR immunisation.

Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 20 >> Believe the diseases can have unpleasant symptoms and dangerous complications but feel that the government tries to frighten people in to taking up th

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals for two eldest boys. For MMR: They followed recommendations of health professionals for two eldest boys. Reactions that their second son had to MMR, an extensive review of research papers in medical journals, and using the Internet to read about both pro and anti immunisation arguments helped them to make their decisions for their youngest son.

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