Using historic data to investigate the long-term success of mandatory vaccination laws
A paper by NORDEMICS researchers investigates the consequences of vaccination laws by monitoring rural Finland's first vaccination campaign.
Photo: Stock photo of a vaccination. Colourbox.
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To combat vaccine hesitancy, several countries recently made vaccinating children mandatory, but the effect of such vaccination laws on vaccination coverage remains debated.
NORDEMICS researchers Susanna Ukonaho, Virpi Lummaa and Michael Briga have quantified the consequences of vaccination laws on vaccination coverage, monitoring for a period of 63 years (1837–1899) rural Finland’s first vaccination campaign against the highly lethal childhood infection smallpox.
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