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Ten Actions to Counteract Vaccine Hesitancy Suggested by the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health

Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is one of the main causes of the widespread decline in vaccination coverage and has become the subject of ongoing debate among public health professionals. The present commentary is a “decalogue” of strategic actions to counteract vaccine hesitancy for public health profession...

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Autores principales: Costantino, Claudio, Rizzo, Caterina, Rosselli, Roberto, Battista, Tatiana, Conforto, Arianna, Cimino, Livia, Poscia, Andrea, Fiacchini, Daniel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891193
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10071030
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author Costantino, Claudio
Rizzo, Caterina
Rosselli, Roberto
Battista, Tatiana
Conforto, Arianna
Cimino, Livia
Poscia, Andrea
Fiacchini, Daniel
author_facet Costantino, Claudio
Rizzo, Caterina
Rosselli, Roberto
Battista, Tatiana
Conforto, Arianna
Cimino, Livia
Poscia, Andrea
Fiacchini, Daniel
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description Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is one of the main causes of the widespread decline in vaccination coverage and has become the subject of ongoing debate among public health professionals. The present commentary is a “decalogue” of strategic actions to counteract vaccine hesitancy for public health professionals that comes from the cognitive and formative path put in place by the “Communication in Public Health” working group (WG) of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health. From the establishment of a national, multidisciplinary WG on VH to the activation of a national monitoring/surveillance system on vaccine hesitancy, several proposals are discussed. The identification and dissemination of good practices and tools to counteract and understand vaccine hesitancy, interdisciplinary training on vaccine hesitancy and on risk communication, community engagement and infodemiology, the inclusion of effective interventions to counteract vaccine hesitancy within the National Immunization Plan (NIP), the promotion and growth of a community of practice and research in the field of vaccine hesitancy, collaborations between scientific societies, and knowledge from the behavioral sciences represent other actions recommended in the present commentary. The present document suggests ten undeferrable strategies that could be implemented at the national and local levels in Italy, and that could be borrowed by other European countries in order to counteract vaccines hesitancy with a systematic and organic approach.
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spelling pubmed-93200962022-07-27 Ten Actions to Counteract Vaccine Hesitancy Suggested by the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health Costantino, Claudio Rizzo, Caterina Rosselli, Roberto Battista, Tatiana Conforto, Arianna Cimino, Livia Poscia, Andrea Fiacchini, Daniel Vaccines (Basel) Perspective Vaccine hesitancy (VH) is one of the main causes of the widespread decline in vaccination coverage and has become the subject of ongoing debate among public health professionals. The present commentary is a “decalogue” of strategic actions to counteract vaccine hesitancy for public health professionals that comes from the cognitive and formative path put in place by the “Communication in Public Health” working group (WG) of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health. From the establishment of a national, multidisciplinary WG on VH to the activation of a national monitoring/surveillance system on vaccine hesitancy, several proposals are discussed. The identification and dissemination of good practices and tools to counteract and understand vaccine hesitancy, interdisciplinary training on vaccine hesitancy and on risk communication, community engagement and infodemiology, the inclusion of effective interventions to counteract vaccine hesitancy within the National Immunization Plan (NIP), the promotion and growth of a community of practice and research in the field of vaccine hesitancy, collaborations between scientific societies, and knowledge from the behavioral sciences represent other actions recommended in the present commentary. The present document suggests ten undeferrable strategies that could be implemented at the national and local levels in Italy, and that could be borrowed by other European countries in order to counteract vaccines hesitancy with a systematic and organic approach. MDPI 2022-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9320096/ /pubmed/35891193 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10071030 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ten Actions to Counteract Vaccine Hesitancy Suggested by the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health
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title_fullStr Ten Actions to Counteract Vaccine Hesitancy Suggested by the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health
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title_short Ten Actions to Counteract Vaccine Hesitancy Suggested by the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health
title_sort ten actions to counteract vaccine hesitancy suggested by the italian society of hygiene, preventive medicine, and public health
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891193
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10071030
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