Hygiena 2014, 59(3):148-150 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1304

Rejection of Vaccination and Health Literacy [Discussion Paper to the Article of Prof. Vladimír Bencko "Refusal of Vaccination and False Cards in Hands of Anti-vaccinators"]

Jaroslav Kříž
Doc. MUDr. Jaroslav Kříž, E-mail: jakriz@volny.cz

The author agrees with Prof. Bencko, that refusal of vaccination by some people represents a serious problem of public health. The author brings information about people's opinions on vaccination published in the Czech webpages and believes that the objections of some people against mandatory vaccination are partly caused by inadequate health literacy, consequences of it occur also in other segments of preventive health care. National Strategy of Health Protection and Promotion and Disease Prevention (Health 2020), approved by the Czech government in 2014 emphasized health literacy as one of its main directions. No doubt, support of vaccination will be very important in this strategy, as well.

Keywords: vaccination refusal, health literacy

Received: April 2014; Accepted: July 14, 2014; Published: September 1, 2014  Show citation

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Kříž J. Rejection of Vaccination and Health Literacy [Discussion Paper to the Article of Prof. Vladimír Bencko "Refusal of Vaccination and False Cards in Hands of Anti-vaccinators"]. Hygiena. 2014;59(3):148-150. doi: 10.21101/hygiena.a1304.
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