Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The anti-vaccination movement and resistance to allergen-immunotherapy: a guide for clinical allergists. | Behrmann Allergy Asthma Clinical Immunology 2010 6 26 http content 6 1 26 ALLERGY ASTHMA CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY REVIEW Open Access The anti-vaccination movement and resistance to allergen-immunotherapy a guide for clinical allergists Jason Behrmann Abstract Despite over a century of clinical use and a well-documented record of efficacy and safety a growing minority in society questions the validity of vaccination and fear that this common public health intervention is the root-cause of severe health problems. This article questions whether growing public anti-vaccine sentiments might have the potential to spill-over into other therapies distinct from vaccination namely allergen-immunotherapy. Allergenimmunotherapy shares certain medical vernacular with vaccination . allergy shots allergy vaccines and thus may become guilty by association due to these similarities. Indeed this article demonstrates that anti-vaccine websites have begun unduly discrediting this allergy treatment regimen. Following an explanation of the anti-vaccine movement the article aims to provide guidance on how clinicians can respond to patient fears towards allergen-immunotherapy in the clinical setting. This guide focuses on the provision of reliable information to patients in order to dispel misconceived associations between vaccination and allergen-immunotherapy and the discussion of the risks and benefits of both therapies in order to assist patients in making autonomous decisions about their choice of allergy treatment. Review Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. Samuel Butler 1835-1902 In 2009 the National Film Board of Canada and Play Films released the documentary film Shots in the Dark 1 which showed interviews of parents of children that experienced severe cognitive and physical decline following immunization better known as vaccination amongst the lay-public and anti-vaccine .
