US EditionHow Game Theory Explains Vaccination Rates and Parents’ Choices
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How game theory explains vaccination rates and parents’ choices
When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are misguided, selfish, or have fallen prey to misinformation. As professors with expertise in vaccine policy and health economics, we argue that the decision not to vaccinate isn’t simply about misinformation or hesitancy. In our view, it involves game theor…
Two health-care professors from George Washington University, J. Tony Yang and Avi Dor applied a mathematical game theory to the rejection of vaccines. This helped to understand the causes and shape the strategy to mitigate the effects, wrote The Conversation. Concern about the rejection of vaccines is related to the return of diseases that were considered to have been completely overcome. For example, in Texas, where the number of parents who r…
The State Health Office Kulmbach once again stresses the importance of HPV preventive vaccination. Despite the proven effectiveness against different types of cancer, the vaccination rate in Germany – and also in the...
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