Vaccine hesitancy and healthcare providers

Unpacking Vaccine Hesitancy Among Healthcare Providers

Vaccine hesitancy – which refers to “delays in acceptance or refusal these practitioners can actually address the fears of their vaccineof vaccination despite availability of vaccination services” – is a growing concern worldwide (MacDonald and SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy, 2015). Vaccine hesitancy is increasingly being recognized as a barrier to immunization program success and heal...

Vaccine Hesitancy

A Vaccine hesitancy reflects concerns about the decision to vaccinate oneself or one’s children. There is a broad range of factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy, including the compulsory nature of vaccines, their coincidental temporal relationships to adverse health outcomes, unfamiliarity with vaccine-preventable diseases, and lack of trust in corporations and public health agencies. Altho...

Roots of vaccine hesitancy.

Health communication and vaccine hesitancy.

Health communication is an evolving field. There is evidence that communication can be an effective tool, if utilized in a carefully planned and integrated strategy, to influence the behaviours of populations on a number of health issues, including vaccine hesitancy. Experience has shown that key points to take into account in devising and implementing a communication plan include: (i) it is ne...

Identifying and addressing vaccine hesitancy.

In the 20th century, the introduction of multiple vaccines significantly reduced childhood morbidity, mortality, and disease outbreaks. Despite, and perhaps because of, their public health impact, an increasing number of parents and patients are choosing to delay or refuse vaccines. These individuals are described as "vaccine hesitant." This phenomenon has developed due to the confluence of mul...