NSU Associate Professor Publishes Article in Journal of Bioeconomics
Florence Neymotin, Ph.D, an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship recently had a journal acceptance at the Journal of Bioeconomics for a very timely and critical piece of research. Her work, entitled “Risky Behavior and Non-Vaccination” examines the multiple risky behaviors that individuals choose to engage in, and how they are related to an individual’s vaccination status. Neymotin found that greater sun exposure, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and poor diet are all predictive of reduced vaccination rates, both in the current year and over a person’s lifetime. While the Canadian data for this analysis focuses on seasonal influenza, reasons for non-vaccination tend to be similar across types of vaccinations. For this reason, Neymotin’s work has crucial implications for our ongoing and future efforts to improve vaccination rates against Covid-19 and achieve herd immunity status in the United States and globally.