ReviewJournal of preventive medicine and hygiene2016
The old and the new: vaccine hesitancy in the era of the Web 2.0. Challenges and opportunities.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The impact of COVID-19 on general vaccine acceptance in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Acceptance Rate of Covid-19 Vaccine and its Associated Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2022Pooled it
- The Association between Message Framing and Intention to Vaccinate Predictive of Hepatitis A Vaccine Uptake.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Trial
- Age and vaccine information sources drive vaccine hesitancy: A household survey in Central-Western Brazil.PloS one · 2026Article
- Is there still hesitancy towards SARS-CoV-2 vaccination among people with neurological disease- a survey of the NeuroCOVID-19 task force of the European Academy of Neurology.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025Article
- Infecting minds: socio-contextual drivers of vaccine perceptions and attitudes among young and older adults living in urban and rural areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Challenges to Implementing a Vaccine for Coccidioidomycosis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Assessing vaccine hesitancy and health literacy using a new Italian vaccine confidence index and a modified Italian medical term recognition test: A cross-sectional survey on Italian parents.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- The Role of Perceived Risk in the Relationship Between Disgust Sensitivity and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy.Cognitive therapy and research · 2023Article
- The Psychological Antecedents to COVID-19 Vaccination among Community Pharmacists in Khartoum State, Sudan.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- COVID-19 Vaccination Intake and Intention Among Black and White Residents in Southeast Michigan.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
- Factors influencing healthcare professionals' confidence in vaccination in Europe: a literature review.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2022Review
- The moderating effect of information channel on the relationship between type of information search and knowledge of genetically modified organisms.GM crops & food · 2022Article
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- Vaccine hesitancy, misinformation in the era of Covid-19: Lessons from the past.Ethics, medicine, and public health · 2022Review
- Understanding hesitancy with revealed preferences across COVID-19 vaccine types.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Ten Actions to Counteract Vaccine Hesitancy Suggested by the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Pilot study of peer modeling with psychological inoculation to promote coronavirus vaccination.Health education research · 2022Article
- Assessing Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out Strategy Programs: A Cross-Country Study Using a Machine Learning Approach.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Attitude and Willingness to Get COVID-19 Vaccines by a Community Pharmacist in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
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Abstract
The phenomenon known as vaccine hesitancy (a term that includes the concepts of indecision, uncertainty, delay and reluctance) is complex, closely linked to social contexts, and has different determinants: historical period, geographical area, political situation, complacency, convenience and confidence in vaccines. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that vaccine hesitancy and any proxy of it should be constantly monitored. Given the growing importance and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs), the new media could be exploited in order to track lay-people's perceptions of vaccination in real time, thereby enabling health-care workers to actively engage citizens and to plan ad hoc communication strategies. Analysis of so-called "sentiments" expressed through the new media (such as Twitter) and the real-time tracking of web-related activities enabled by Google Trends, combined with the administration of specific online "surveys" on well-defined themes to target groups (such as health-care workers), could constitute a "Fast data monitoring system" that yields a snapshot of perceptions of vaccination in a given place and at a specific time. This type of dashboard could be a strategic tool that enables public services to organize targeted communication actions aimed at containing vaccine hesitancy.
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