PSYC 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Herd Immunity, Chemotherapy, Rational Agent
2 Oct 2018
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Topics in health psychology lecture 16 and chapter 13. Immunization: definition: produce whereby individuals who are most susceptible to contracting a certain communicable disease are administered a vaccine. Immunization is the top strategies on a population level- most. Sucessful: generally recognized as most successful example of primary prevention of disease, vaccination of susceptible individuals, this is the idea behind vaccination, you are vulnerable if you are not vaccinated. Immediate protection of individuals and immunity across the whole community where the rate is high: protection of community as a whole (high uptake, the community a whole is protected, herd immunity (community immunity) 102 degrees (15-20% of children, under 2% adults: secondary blister elsewhere on the body (about 1 per 1,900, this vaccine has the most awful side effects. Psychological methods: social cognition model focusing on perceived risk, meta-analysis (brewer et al. Probability that one will be harmed by the hazard. Extent of harm that the hazard could cause.
