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ArticleVaccine2023

Spatial distribution and determinants of childhood vaccination refusal in the United States.

Bokgyeong Kang, Sandra Goldlust, Elizabeth C Lee, John Hughes, Shweta Bansal, Murali Haran

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Article in Vaccine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Estimated Impacts of Rotavirus Vaccine Recommendation Changes in the U.S.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  2. Fast Bayesian Inference for Spatial Mean-Parameterized Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Models.Journal of computational and graphical statistics : a joint publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Bokgyeong KangDepartment of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, PA, USA.
Sandra GoldlustNew York University School of Medicine, New York 10016, NY, USA.
Elizabeth C LeeDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore 21205, MD, USA.
John HughesCollege of Health, Lehigh University, Bethlehem 18015, PA, USA.
Shweta BansalDepartment of Biology, Georgetown University, Washington 20007, DC, USA.
Murali HaranDepartment of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, PA, USA.

Funding

Vaccine hesitancy and erosion of herd immunity: harnessing big data to forecast disease re-emergenceR01GM123007 · NIGMS · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI BANSAL, SHWETA · 2017 to 2021
$2.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM123007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parental refusal and delay of childhood vaccination has increased in recent years in the United States. This phenomenon challenges maintenance of herd immunity and increases the risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. We examine US county-level vaccine refusal for patients under five years of age collected during the period 2012-2015 from an administrative healthcare dataset. We model these data with a Bayesian zero-inflated negative binomial regression model to capture social and political processes that are associated with vaccine refusal, as well as factors that affect our measurement of vaccine refusal. Our work highlights fine-scale socio-demographic characteristics associated with vaccine refusal nationally, finds that spatial clustering in refusal can be explained by such factors, and has the potential to aid in the development of targeted public health strategies for optimizing vaccine uptake.

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VaccinationVaccinesBayes TheoremDisease OutbreaksHumansUnited StatesVaccination RefusalVaccinesAdministrative healthcare dataBayesian inferenceVaccine hesitancyVaccine refusal

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PMID37069031
PMCPMC12068412

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