Prof Mihai Craiu presentation at Working lunch: Vaccine confidence in Central & Eastern Europe on 20 April 2023.

1. Mihai CRAIU MD PhD
INSMC “Alessandrescu-Rusescu”
UMF “Carol Davila”
Bucharest, ROMANIA

4. In Romania there are many vocal opponents

6. “Perception Is Reality” Lee Atwater

7. A GfK study published in 2017 is stating
that in Romania 74% of people
confronted with disease and health care
issues go first to on-line and Social
Media resources and after that to a GP

8. Context 1
* https:// ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/2017-european-semestercountry-report-romania-en.pdf
European Commission (2017) - Commission Staff Working Document Country
Report Romania 2017 *

9. Context 2
The Romanian health system counted in 2020 :
• 66 thousand doctors (excluding dentists),
• 18.5 thousand dentists,
• 19.5 thousand pharmacists,
• 152.6 thousand health ancillary medical staff.
• In 2020, there was a doctor for 293 inhabitants, in Romania.
* - https://emerging-europe.com/news/romania-is-haemorrhaging-doctors/
More than 15,000 doctors have left
Romania since the country joined the
EU in 2007 *

10. Social Media as echo-chamber

11. From ZERO to HERO and finally to NERO

14. • We conducted a cross-sectional
study by administering an online
questionnaire with 29 questions,
for one week, 16-22 Aug 2021
• 2628 in total, 2550 validated

20. Communication in former communist countries