15
Mar
Published by MacDoctor on March 15th, 2010
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New Zealand is now contemplating using the same set of incentives to boost immunisation rates that Australia used to boost it’s rates from 50% to 91%. The MacDoctor is not convinced that New Zealanders will respond quite as well as Australians to the incentives. The incentives were:
Cash payments to parents for completing immunisations at 6 [...]
27
Nov
Published by MacDoctor on November 27th, 2009
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I discovered this very interesting poll on Medscape today:
What is interesting is that 17% of physicians who answered this survey think it is ethical to refuse to see a child whose parents have chosen not to vaccinate (this has remained stable at around 17% for the past 500 or so votes). I find this quite [...]