# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand more of the scientific factors that relate to the dispute about the safety of the MMR vaccine in the UK
- assess the strength of arguments for and against the use of the MMR vaccine
- show how issues of risk, trust, communication and media representation of science and medicine have a strong bearing on public perception of the MMR vaccine
- explain why there is such a strong consensus amongst the medical profession testifying to the safety of the MMR vaccine.

OpenLearn - The MMR vaccine: Public health, private fears
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