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The Place of Big Data in Addressing Emerged Issues in Vaccinology of the 21st Century

Vaccinology as great achievement of public health of the 20th century nowadays faces doubts, questions and concerns that could be included in the term of vaccine hesitancy. The vaccinology in the 21st century is marked by the emerged antivaccinal movements followed by a variety of attempts and approaches of professionals to resolve them. The globalization in the health care on the one side and great technological achievements on the other side creates the possibilities where an enormous amount of data are publicly available. The professionals based the benefits of vaccination on scientific data. Vaccine hesitancy and antivaccinal movements declare that they based their policy on scientific data too. The first line of facing vaccine hesitancy of parents are primary pediatricians who can testify their own limiting abilities to do so, as well as limiting abilities of other professionals involved in vaccinology. In the situation of an enormous amount of data, one could be drown out and interpreted in various ways. It is clear that the old-fashioned “defense” of great public achievement of the 20 century - vaccinology is no longer appropriate. On the other hand, the search of the literature shows the entry of “Big Data” in the medicine in general and in the public health and vaccinology too. This paper is an attempt to position the role of Big Data (its benefits, traps and ethical implications) in vaccinology in the 21st century based on exploring the literature and our propositions.

Big data, bioethics, Vaccination

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