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ReviewPreventive medicine reports2023

How behavioral economics can inform the next mass vaccination campaign: A narrative review.

Ratnalekha V N Viswanadham

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Review in Preventive medicine reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ratnalekha V N ViswanadhamNew York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Designing the next mass vaccination campaign will require ideas and techniques from behavioral economics. History and current events have shown how failing to consider features of human behavior, from individual biases in information processing to the relationships between people and policymakers, frustrated public health efforts. Behavioral economics can inform how a vaccination campaign needs to deliver processes and information necessary to help people decide to vaccinate, especially when mandates to vaccinate are not possible. Such campaigns need to employ both "nudges" (i.e., promote action) and remove "sludge" (i.e., break down blockers) to influence decisions directly. Strategies must be both acute and systemic to the current approach to public health.

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Behavioral economicsHesitancyNudgePublic healthSludgeTrustVaccination

Identifiers

PMID36974280
PMCPMC10039374

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