Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion

So far I have attempted to provide a broad framework within which to consider the importance of managerial and organisational integration. Inevitably in so doing I have found it necessary to raise wider educational and training issues which influence not only conceptual skills but also attitude. Indeed I have, on occasion, moved my argument or perspective to even wider considerations; issues pertaining to national culture. Culture, education policy or structure, industrial organisation, all interact in subtle and perhaps devious forms. Thus a cultural framework which is “overly status or class conscious” reflects this in its educational system. Most likely it is more predisposed to segment its secondary and tertiary education systems according to similar principles. It may well encourage separation of the university and technical college or polytechnic system to a degree that is industrially and commercially counterproductive — and integratively devisive. Such an educational system will no doubt require “preselection and filtering” which relies upon early, too early, subject specialisation; it may, subsequently, influence adversely the need for individuals and subgroups to communicate more intimately and to organise themselves more closely. In fact it may ensure the continuance of barriers, hierarchies, and polarised attitudes of class, structure and function all the way across and through commerce and industry.

A National Survey

Background Influenza vaccine hesitancy is a significant threat to global efforts to reduce the burden of seasonal and pandemic influenza. Potential barriers of influenza vaccination need to be identified to inform interventions to raise awareness, influenza vaccine acceptance and uptake. Objective This review aims to (1) identify relevant studies and extract individual barriers of seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccination for risk groups and the general public; and (2) map knowledge gaps in understanding influenza vaccine hesitancy to derive directions for further research and inform interventions in this area. Methods Thirteen databases covering the areas of Medicine, Bioscience, Psychology, Sociology and Public Health were searched for peer-reviewed articles published between the years 2005 and 2016. Following the PRISMA approach, 470 articles were selected and analyzed for significant barriers to influenza vaccine uptake or intention. The barriers for different risk groups and flu types were clustered according to a conceptual framework based on the Theory of Planned Behavior and discussed using the 4C model of reasons for non-vaccination. Results Most studies were conducted in the American and European region. Health care personnel (HCP) and the general public were the most studied populations, while parental decisions for children at high risk were under-represented. This study also identifies understudied concepts. A lack of confidence, inconvenience, calculation and complacency were identified to different extents as barriers to influenza vaccine uptake in risk groups. Conclusion Many different psychological, contextual, sociodemographic and physical barriers that are specific to certain risk groups were identified. While most sociodemographic and physical variables may be significantly related to influenza vaccine hesitancy, they cannot be used to explain its emergence or intensity. Psychological determinants were meaningfully related to uptake and should therefore be measured in a valid and comparable way. A compendium of measurements for future use is suggested as supporting information.

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Barriers of Influenza Vaccination Intention and Behavior – A Systematic Review of Influenza Vaccine Hesitancy, 2005 – 2016

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Personalization-privacy paradox and consumer conflict with the use of location-based mobile commerce

An experiment was employed to determine the effect of gain versus loss message framing, point of reference (i.e., self vs. environment), and product involvement on the effectiveness of green advertising. Results indicate that in the context of green advertising for consumer products, gain frames and self appeals elicit more favorable responses than loss frames and environment appeals. However, when combined, a self/loss framing is more persuasive than an environment/loss framing. This difference was muted for the high product involvement condition, possibly due to more message elaboration occurring under this condition. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

The Effects of Gain Versus Loss Message Framing and Point of Reference on Consumer Responses to Green Advertising

This study examines the effect of ad–context congruency and the moderating role of issue involvement on consumers’ responses to banner ads on blogs Results indicate that a banner ad that is thematically congruent with the blog’s context generates more favourable responses than an ad that is not congruent with the context However, issue involvement moderates the effect of congruency When a banner ad was placed in a congruent context, individuals who were highly involved with the issue discussed in the blog responded more positively to the ad However, when a banner ad was placed in an incongruent context, individuals who were less involved with the issue responded more favourably to the ad Findings suggest that ad–context congruency is especially important when targeting audiences who feel the issue is very relevant to them In contrast, ad–context incongruency is better perceived by individuals who are less involved with the issue We explain these findings using the tenets of contextual priming vs co

The effects of ad-context congruency on responses to advertising in blogs: Exploring the role of issue involvement

As a culturally diverse country, the U.S. hosts over 39 million immigrants who may experience various cultural and linguistic obstacles to receiving quality health care. Considering online sources an important alternative for immigrants to access health information, this study investigates how Chinese immigrants in the U.S. seek health information online. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among Chinese immigrants who currently live in the U.S. to understand how acculturation strategies they use to adapt to the host society influence their Internet-based health information seeking behaviors. Our findings revealed that the language and web sources immigrants choose to use can be predicted by the acculturation strategies they utilize to cope with the new culture. This study serves as a timely and imperative call for further consideration of the role that acculturation plays in determining how immigrants seek health information and utilize the healthcare services of their host society.

Coping with a New Health Culture: Acculturation and Online Health Information Seeking Among Chinese Immigrants in the United States

We investigate how the online news and Twitter framed the discussion about genetically modified mosquitoes, and the interplay between the two media platforms. The study is grounded in the theoretic...

Framing genetically modified mosquitoes in the online news and Twitter: Intermedia frame setting in the issue-attention cycle:

A survey conducted among college students (N = 205), one of the groups most susceptible to the H1N1 influenza virus, examined how people responded to the unexpected public health crisis from their initial emotional reaction, to information seeking, to vaccination behavior. Results showed that surprise upon first learning of the H1N1 flu was positively related to multiple-channel information seeking. People who used multiple channels to get updated about the pandemic reported more favorable attitudes about getting vaccinated against the H1N1 flu and were more likely to regard getting vaccinated as the norm. These cognitive antecedents were positively related to their actual vaccination behavior.

Weirui Wang

Papers

The Effects of Gain Versus Loss Message Framing and Point of Reference on Consumer Responses to Green Advertising

The effects of ad-context congruency on responses to advertising in blogs: Exploring the role of issue involvement

Coping with a New Health Culture: Acculturation and Online Health Information Seeking Among Chinese Immigrants in the United States

Framing genetically modified mosquitoes in the online news and Twitter: Intermedia frame setting in the issue-attention cycle:

Acting on surprise: emotional response, multiple-channel information seeking and vaccination in the H1N1 flu epidemic