Too Few Teens Finish HPV Shot Series
Just 1/3 of Teenage Girls Get All 3 HPV Shots
In a related report, Sarah E. Gollust, PhD, an assistant professor in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and colleagues found that people were less likely to support laws requiring the HPV vaccine for young girls when they learned that there is political and medical controversy over such laws. These findings appear in the November issue of the journal Health Affairs.
"We know that HPV vaccine mandates have been hotly debated in the U.S. news media, with medical and public health experts, politicians, and others disagreeing about whether the HPV vaccine should be required for girls [and] our study showed that exposure to this controversy made people more wary of supporting laws requiring the vaccine," she says in an email.
Few Teens Finish HPV Shot Series
Just 1/3 of Teenage Girls Get All 3 HPV Shots
HPV Shot Controversy continued...
In a related report, Sarah E. Gollust, PhD, an assistant professor in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and colleagues found that people were less likely to support laws requiring the HPV vaccine for young girls when they learned that there is political and medical controversy over such laws. These findings appear in the November issue of the journal Health Affairs.
"We know that HPV vaccine mandates have been hotly debated in the U.S. news media, with medical and public health experts, politicians, and others disagreeing about whether the HPV vaccine should be required for girls [and] our study showed that exposure to this controversy made people more wary of supporting laws requiring the vaccine," she says in an email.
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