{"id":4256,"date":"2024-06-21T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2026-09-05T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T16:20:00","slug":"european-attitudes-towards-vaccination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/european-attitudes-towards-vaccination\/","title":{"rendered":"European Attitudes Towards Vaccination: How Skeptical Are They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"section padding-all-50 padding-all-s-15 bg-gradient-white-primary50\">\n<article id=\"infographicArticle-31406\" class=\"article article--infographic article--infographic31406 row padding-top-15\" aria-labelledby=\"infographicArticleTitle\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<footer class=\"article__meta\">\n<div class=\"article__topic showMobile text--wordBreak\">According to Statista\u2019s Consumer Insights survey, 31 percent of respondents in Poland have little confidence in the safety of vaccinations. This lack of confidence is reflected in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/global-consumer-survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a>, which shows a low influenza vaccination rate among older individuals in Poland. Although this data does not conclusively establish a causal relationship, it highlights potential practical implications of such attitudes.<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row margin-bottom-15\">\n<div class=\"width70 padding-right-15\">\n<div id=\"infographicDescriptionLong\" class=\"article__contentText responsiveText responsiveText--underlinedLinks\">\n<p>The chart below illustrates the varying levels of trust in vaccination safety across several European countries. In Austria and France, around 25 percent of those surveyed expressed skepticism about vaccine safety, while in Germany, just over 20 percent shared this sentiment. Conversely, confidence in vaccine safety is more prevalent in Spain and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, vaccine safety continues to be monitored even post-approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). This agency is pivotal in collecting and analyzing vaccine safety data and investigating reported adverse events. More information on vaccines and their potential side effects can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"width30 padding-left-15 hideMobile\">\n<div class=\"article__contentEditor\">\n<div class=\"box contactBox sidebar float-s--none\">\n<div class=\"contactBox\">\n<div class=\"cInfo\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"article__contentGraphic panel-box panelBox--noPadding width100\">\n<div class=\"row flex\">\n<div class=\"flex_item width70 border-right-gray10-1 bg-white-smoke\">\n<div class=\"article__graphic\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__img margin-bottom-5n\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.statcdn.com\/Infographic\/images\/normal\/31406.jpeg\" alt=\"Infographic: How Skeptical Are Europeans About Vaccinations? | Statista\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" data-open-modal=\"#infographicModal\" data-gtm=\"infographic__graphic\" aria-describedby=\"infographicDescriptionShort infographicDescriptionLong\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"hideNoscript hidePrint\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_item width30\">\n<div class=\"panelBox__section panelBox__section--border article__graphicText\">\n<p id=\"infographicDescriptionShort\" class=\"article__graphicDescription\">This chart shows the share of respondents who have little confidence in the safety of vaccinations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"box-container\">\n<p><em>This story originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statista<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10874,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/10874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.datapulse.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}