Experts of different disciplines will discuss how emotions can impact our health decision making and how they can fundamentally influence global health outcomes. Panellists will debate emotions and their role during the COVID outbreak, role of new technologies in emotional transmission and concepts of emotion for global health.
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Our research aims to reverse the decline in immunisation coverage in children, increase vaccine uptake in adults and reduce inequalities in the vaccine service.
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There is a strong culture of vaccination in Brazil. Brazilians have trust in the primary health care system and national immunisation programs. There have been successful vaccination drives in recent memory including against diseases like polio which was eradicated in 1989.