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Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon
The term vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services. Different factors influence vaccine hesitancy and these are context-specific, varying across time and place and with different vaccines. Factors such as complacency, conv...
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2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5355208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25280436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.09.039 |
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author | Dubé, Eve Gagnon, Dominique Nickels, Emily Jeram, Stanley Schuster, Melanie |
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description | The term vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services. Different factors influence vaccine hesitancy and these are context-specific, varying across time and place and with different vaccines. Factors such as complacency, convenience and confidence are involved. Acceptance of vaccines may be decreasing and several explanations for this trend have been proposed. The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization has recognized the global importance of vaccine hesitancy and recommended an interview study with immunization managers (IMs) to better understand the range of vaccine hesitancy determinants that are encountered in different settings. Interviews with IMs in 13 selected countries were conducted between September and December 2013 and various factors that discourage vaccine acceptance were identified. Vaccine hesitancy was not defined consistently by the IMs and most interpreted the term as meaning vaccine refusal. Although vaccine hesitancy existed in all 13 countries, some IMs considered its impact on immunization programmes to be a minor problem. The causes of vaccine hesitancy varied in the different countries and were context-specific, indicating a need to strengthen the capacity of national programmes to identify the locally relevant causal factors and to develop adapted strategies to address them. |
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spelling | pubmed-53552082017-03-24 Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon Dubé, Eve Gagnon, Dominique Nickels, Emily Jeram, Stanley Schuster, Melanie Vaccine Article The term vaccine hesitancy refers to delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services. Different factors influence vaccine hesitancy and these are context-specific, varying across time and place and with different vaccines. Factors such as complacency, convenience and confidence are involved. Acceptance of vaccines may be decreasing and several explanations for this trend have been proposed. The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization has recognized the global importance of vaccine hesitancy and recommended an interview study with immunization managers (IMs) to better understand the range of vaccine hesitancy determinants that are encountered in different settings. Interviews with IMs in 13 selected countries were conducted between September and December 2013 and various factors that discourage vaccine acceptance were identified. Vaccine hesitancy was not defined consistently by the IMs and most interpreted the term as meaning vaccine refusal. Although vaccine hesitancy existed in all 13 countries, some IMs considered its impact on immunization programmes to be a minor problem. The causes of vaccine hesitancy varied in the different countries and were context-specific, indicating a need to strengthen the capacity of national programmes to identify the locally relevant causal factors and to develop adapted strategies to address them. Elsevier Science 2014-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5355208/ /pubmed/25280436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.09.039 Text en © 2014 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Dubé, Eve Gagnon, Dominique Nickels, Emily Jeram, Stanley Schuster, Melanie Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon |
title | Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon |
title_full | Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon |
title_fullStr | Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon |
title_full_unstemmed | Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon |
title_short | Mapping vaccine hesitancy—Country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon |
title_sort | mapping vaccine hesitancy—country-specific characteristics of a global phenomenon |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5355208/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25280436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.09.039 |
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