Training university students as vaccination champions to promote vaccination in their multiple identities and help address vaccine hesitancy

The Predictive Role of Vaccine Literacy and Vaccine Hesitancy on Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination

Background: Vaccination is preventive behavior, and vaccine literacy and hesitancy appear to influence vaccination. The aim of this study was to determine the role of vaccine literacy and hesitancy on the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 2185 residents over 18 years old in urban and rural health centers in three cities of Dashtestan, Dash...

Vaccine hesitancy: understanding better to address better

Vaccine hesitancy is an emerging term in the socio-medical literature which describes an approach to vaccine decision making. It recognizes that there is a continuum between full acceptance and outright refusal of some or all vaccines and challenges the previous understanding of individuals or groups, as being either anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine. The behaviours responsible for vaccine hesitancy ...

Promote COVID-19 vaccination uptake: a letter to editor

The role of vaccine and vaccination in ornamental aquatics

The growing growth of the aquatic industry has caused the problems for the industries, including infectious diseases and damages caused by them, frequent use of some antibiotics, chemicals, and disinfectants that resist bacteria, and in addition to creating immune problems in ornamental and edible, it is worth the risk of healthy consumers of consumer aquatic. The and implementation of comprehe...

Strategies intended to address vaccine hesitancy: Review of published reviews.

When faced with vaccine hesitancy, public health authorities are looking for effective strategies to address this issue. In this paper, the findings of 15 published literature reviews or meta-analysis that have examined the effectiveness of different interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy and/or to enhance vaccine acceptance are presented and discussed. From the literature, there is no stron...