The ability and willingness of health care workers to report for work during a pandemic are essential to pandemic response. The main contribution of this article is to examine the relationship between risk perception of personal and work activities and willingness to report for work during an...

Mit dem Ausbruch der Schweinegrippe - offiziell jetzt A(H1N1) - in Mexiko erscheint am Horizont erneut die Gefahr einer Grippepandemie, die ähnlich wie die Pandemien des 20. Jahrhunderts (u. a. die Spanische Grippe 1918-1919) Hunderttausende oder gar Millionen Opfer fordern könnte. In den...

Childhood vaccinations are an important input to disease prevention, but vaccination rates have declined over the last decade due largely to parental fears about vaccine dangers. Education campaigns on the safety of vaccines seem to have little impact. Anecdotal evidence on disease outbreaks...

We evaluate the impact of government mandated proof of vaccination requirements for access to public venues and non-essential businesses on COVID-19 vaccine uptake. We find that the announcement of a mandate is associated with a rapid and significant surge in new vaccinations (more than 60%...