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Article: 'This year’s vaccine is only 10% effective': A study of public discourse on vaccine effectiveness in Hong Kong
Title | 'This year’s vaccine is only 10% effective': A study of public discourse on vaccine effectiveness in Hong Kong |
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Keywords | Lay perception Vaccine hesitancy Vaccination refusal Risk Attitude to health Vaccination Public health practice Content analysis |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ycih20 |
Citation | Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2021, v. 14 n. 1, p. 78-89 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Background: A heated debate of vaccine effectiveness started off in Hong Kong with a famous pop singer saying that ‘This year’s vaccine is only 10% effective’ in a private message to friends. The message quickly caught the attention of the media, public and government, plunging the whole city into examining the extent to which vaccines can be effective. Despite numerous clarifications by the health professionals from the government, the public did not seem to be completely convinced by what vaccines could deliver. This raises the question of what the public discourse towards vaccine effectiveness is like in Hong Kong, especially concerning the central themes and stances involved in the public discussion.
Method: In order to examine the public discourse on vaccine effectiveness, 1001 comments on the reporting of the vaccine incident were collected from Facebook and analysed using content analysis.
Results: It is found that there were more comments expressing the anti-vaccination sentiment than the pro-vaccination one, except when the comments involved government-related statements in which all of them unanimously went against vaccination. The rest of the comments nevertheless exhibited mixed arguments under the following themes – (1) research findings (2) personal experience (3) health professionals’ image. These themes may reveal what the public deems relevant when it comes to assessing vaccine effectiveness.
Conclusions: The study adds to the existing literature on vaccine hesitancy by (1) examining some possible discourse strategies lay people use to make sense of medical information and (2) highlighting the interplay between scientific, political and ethical elements in constructing vaccine effectiveness from the eye of the public. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/285389 |
ISSN | 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.364 |
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dc.contributor.author | Yeung, MWL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yau, AHY | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-18T03:52:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-18T03:52:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Communication in Healthcare, 2021, v. 14 n. 1, p. 78-89 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1753-8068 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/285389 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background: A heated debate of vaccine effectiveness started off in Hong Kong with a famous pop singer saying that ‘This year’s vaccine is only 10% effective’ in a private message to friends. The message quickly caught the attention of the media, public and government, plunging the whole city into examining the extent to which vaccines can be effective. Despite numerous clarifications by the health professionals from the government, the public did not seem to be completely convinced by what vaccines could deliver. This raises the question of what the public discourse towards vaccine effectiveness is like in Hong Kong, especially concerning the central themes and stances involved in the public discussion. Method: In order to examine the public discourse on vaccine effectiveness, 1001 comments on the reporting of the vaccine incident were collected from Facebook and analysed using content analysis. Results: It is found that there were more comments expressing the anti-vaccination sentiment than the pro-vaccination one, except when the comments involved government-related statements in which all of them unanimously went against vaccination. The rest of the comments nevertheless exhibited mixed arguments under the following themes – (1) research findings (2) personal experience (3) health professionals’ image. These themes may reveal what the public deems relevant when it comes to assessing vaccine effectiveness. Conclusions: The study adds to the existing literature on vaccine hesitancy by (1) examining some possible discourse strategies lay people use to make sense of medical information and (2) highlighting the interplay between scientific, political and ethical elements in constructing vaccine effectiveness from the eye of the public. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ycih20 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Communication in Healthcare | - |
dc.subject | Lay perception | - |
dc.subject | Vaccine hesitancy | - |
dc.subject | Vaccination refusal | - |
dc.subject | Risk | - |
dc.subject | Attitude to health | - |
dc.subject | Vaccination | - |
dc.subject | Public health practice | - |
dc.subject | Content analysis | - |
dc.title | 'This year’s vaccine is only 10% effective': A study of public discourse on vaccine effectiveness in Hong Kong | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yau, AHY: aliceyhy@hku.hk | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17538068.2020.1809316 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85089744867 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 312726 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 78 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 89 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1753-8068 | - |