ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2018
Addressing barriers to vaccine acceptance: an overview.
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- Vaccine hesitancy among parents of preschoolers in Canada: a systematic literature review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2020Pooled it
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- Integrating sociocultural theories to inform public health response: unique relationships between moral foundations, cultural cognition worldviews, and COVID-19 attitudes and behaviors.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Effectiveness of Interventions Targeting Adolescents in HPV Vaccination-A Scoping Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
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- Vaccine hesitancy among physicians: a qualitative study with general practitioners and paediatricians in Austria and Germany.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Conflicting and complementary notions of responsibility in caregiver's and health care workers' vaccination narratives in the Philippines.Journal of global health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Addressing the drivers of vaccine hesitancy and the barriers to vaccine acceptance is a complex but important task. While the percentage of hesitant does vary from country to country and in time few, if any, countries are ever free from this problem. Overcoming hesitancy requires detection, diagnosis and tailored intervention as there is no simple strategy that can address all of the barriers to vaccine acceptance. Immunization program managers and health care workers need to become adept at recognizing and tackling hesitancy in all of its incarnations if high levels of vaccine acceptance are to be achieved but must also actively support immunization acceptors in order to build and support vaccine acceptance resiliency. This paper presents evidence-informed strategies to achieve these goals.
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