Présentation
The ResiVax project, entitled SoVax for the French context study, addresses a crucial health issue, vaccine coverage and its social determinants, at a specific stage of life, student life. It relies on the precise identification of immunization (HPV, Hepatitis B and meningococcal infections, which particularly affect young people) and uptake matters amongst students, as far as their perception of communicable disease risks and resistance to immunization are concerned. Our proposal will establish their risk perceptions expressed through their own means of communication, i.e. social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook and Twitter. The survey will first be nested in the large-scale i-Share cohort and later expand to surveys abroad. Whereas the SoVax project deals with French issues, the ResiVax project deals with European Public Health perspectives. The ResiVax network is composed of 27 participants, coming from 14 countries (Austria, Albania, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, Ukraine, United Kingdom). Based on this European working group, our project will carry out a comparative approach to explore risk perceptions regarding vaccination issues. We will then analyse students’ perception and opinions in the light of differences and similarities across these countries. Examining how young populations of future parents use social media to develop perceptions, beliefs and practices around vaccination is an innovative approach and will help understand how this demographic group makes health decisions and how to improve public health communication strategies.
Keywords: Public health, Immunisation, Risk Perception, Students, Social Media, HPV, Hepatitis B, Meningococcal C, Social Sciences
Scientific partners
- Helen Bedford, UCL London
- Cornelia Betsch, University of Erfurt
- Silvia Bino, Institute of Public Health, Tirana
- Susanne Blödt, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Sara Boccalini, Paolo Bonanni, University of Florence
- Angela Dominguez Garcia, University of Barcelona
- Cyril Drouot, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
- Eric Fleury, Ecole Normale Supérieure, INRIA, Lyon
- Alice Forster, UCL London
- Adamos Hadjipanayis, European University Cyprus
- Bernhard Hadolt, University of Vienna
- Sharon JB Hanley, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
- Boris Hauray, Inserm
- Martin Kadai, Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia
- Zoltan Katz, University of Pecs
- Thomas Keil Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Ruslan Malyuta, Perinatal Prevention of AIDS Inititative, Ukraine
- Heidi Larson, London School of Hygiene of Tropical Medecine
- Vincent Meyer, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
- Erika Marek, University of Pecs
- Nicolas Glaichenhaus, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
- Vassiliki Papaevangelou, University of Athens
- Andrea Stöckl, University of East Anglia
- István Szilárd, University of Pecs
- Pierre Van Damme, University of Antwerp
- Tommaso Venturini, INRIA