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This project is developed within a PhD scholarship with the funding reference PALOP/BD/155083/2024.
Based on the hypothesis that, in the current context of infodemic (information overload), the persuasive perspective of health communication may face greater obstacles to encouraging vaccination (complacency, convenience, and trust) among the population, this research discusses the relationship between health communication and vaccination processes in Mozambique. The study is justified, first, by its potential to identify and discuss, based on empirical evidence, factors that
condition health communication for the promotion of vaccination in different sociological contexts; second, it can position itself as a theoretical contribution to improving health communication models in infodemic environments; finally, it may prove useful in showing how the global ideology of prevention, which focuses on immunisation as its central element, manifests itself in peripheral local contexts, such as Mozambique, both in terms of routine immunisation and in emergency circumstances. This is a qualitative study that will consist of interviews and non-participant observation (in a real environment) of users and health workers from three health units located in urban, peri-urban and rural areas of three
districts in the province of Maputo. In addition, the study will analyse official training and communication documents on vaccination, as well as explore other unofficial but impactful information on the same topic.
Keywords: vaccination; communication; infodemic.
| Research Centre | Research Group | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| CEI-Iscte | Democracy, Activism and Citizenship | Partner | 2025-02-01 | -- |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role in Project | Begin Date | End Date |
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| Carlos Bavo | PhD Scholar (CEI-Iscte); | PhD Scholar | 2025-02-01 | -- |
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