ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Western Pacific2021
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance in a Cohort of Diverse New Zealanders.
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- Disparities in the Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccination Between Māori and Non-Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2026Article
- Completion of Multidose COVID-19 Vaccination Among Adolescents and Adults in Urban Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- "This was never about a virus": Perceptions of Vaccination Hazards and Pandemic Risk in #Covid19NZ Tweets.The Journal of medical humanities · 2025Article
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- Identifying vaccine-hesitant subgroups in the Western Pacific using latent class analysis.NPJ vaccines · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic Differences in Vaccination Coverage After a Mandatory Vaccination Law, 1855-1900.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Recognising the heterogeneity of Indigenous Peoples during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review across Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Cognitive flexibility predicts attitudes towards vaccination: evidence from a New Zealand sample.BMC psychology · 2024Article
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- Unmasking vaccine hesitancy and refusal: a deep dive into Anti-vaxxer perspectives on COVID-19 in Spain.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Willingness to accept malaria vaccines amongst women presenting at outpatient and immunization clinics in Enugu state, Southeast Nigeria.Malaria journal · 2024Article
- Sociodemographic and geographic disparities in COVID-19 booster vaccination in Nueces County, Texas, USA.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Vaccine decision making in New Zealand: a discrete choice experiment.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Dynamic predictors of COVID-19 vaccination uptake and their interconnections over two years in Hong Kong.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Rural-urban variation in COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Aotearoa New Zealand: Examining the national roll-out.Epidemiology and infection · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundNew Zealand's Immunisation Programme is an important pillar in the war against COVID-19, making high vaccine uptake essential. This study sought to: (1) identify potential vaccine uptake rates among New Zealanders prior to programme rollout; (2) understand reasons for unlikelihood/likelihood of vaccine uptake; and, (3) explore sociodemographic differences in risk of and reasons for vaccine hesitancy.
methodsData were collected in March 2021 (
findingsOverall, 70% reported they would likely take the vaccine once available (i.e., very likely or somewhat likely). Being younger and less educated were correlated with greater vaccine hesitancy risk (i.e., very unlikely, somewhat likely, or unsure). Women were more likely than men to say they were unsure (
interpretationAlthough a majority intend to take the COVID-19 vaccine once available, a sizeable minority who were more likely to be young, female, and less educated, were unsure about or unlikely to get the vaccine, primarily due to perceptions of unknown future side effects. Ethnicity was not statistically associated with vaccine hesitancy, suggesting that public health efforts aimed at increasing vaccine acceptance among Māori and Pacific peoples-subgroups most at-risk of COVID-19 infection and morbidity-should focus on inequities in health care access to increase uptake.
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