Practical approaches to vaccine hesitancy issues in the United States: 2013

Domachowske, Joseph B.; Suryadevara, Manika

doi:10.4161/hv.26783

Cited by 21 publications

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“…Instead, parents may be more focused upon vaccine safety and raise concerns about potential short-term and long-term side effects or the number and timing of injections. 18 …”

Section: Factors Contributing To Vaccine Hesitancymentioning

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“…Studies show that states with more lenient policies have higher exemption rates and states with higher exemption rates are more likely to experience outbreaks of VPDs. 18,30,31 This suggests that tightening exemption policies can make it more difficult for vaccine hesitant parents to delay or refuse vaccination. In fact, there is legal precedence for compulsory vaccination when the benefit of the public outweighs a person’s liberty.…”

Section: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Identifying and Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy

Kestenbaum¹,

Feemster²

2015

Pediatr Ann

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In the 20th century, the introduction of multiple vaccines significantly reduced childhood morbidity, mortality, and disease outbreaks. Despite, and perhaps because of, their public health impact, an increasing number of parents and patients are choosing to delay or refuse vaccines. These individuals are described as vaccine hesitant. This phenomenon has developed due to the confluence of multiple social, cultural, political and personal factors. As immunization programs continue to expand, understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy will be crucial to their successful implementation. This review explores the history of vaccine hesitancy, its causes, and suggested approaches for reducing hesitancy and strengthening vaccine acceptance.

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“…Instead, parents may be more focused upon vaccine safety and raise concerns about potential short-term and long-term side effects or the number and timing of injections. 18 …”

Section: Factors Contributing To Vaccine Hesitancymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancymentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying and Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy

Kestenbaum¹,

Feemster²

2015

Pediatr Ann

126

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“…People belong to different cultures and conform to strong religious beliefs along with conventional trust of natural and artificial medicines. For example, several vaccines constitute bovine serum or bovine derived viruses, or pork gelatine, consumption of which is prohibited in Jewish and Muslim religions (Domachowske & Suryadevara, 2013;Kumar et al, 2016).…”

Section: Religious Beliefsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A study suggests that open and frank discussions with hesitant parents can assist in improving their understanding of vaccines. Maintaining and sharing authoritative, evidence-based information about vaccines by health professionals and establishing relationships with patients and their parents that are based on trust can minimize the impact of vaccine hesitancy (Domachowske & Suryadevara, 2013). Velan (2016) recommends that communicating the risks of vaccination and respecting vaccine-hesitant individuals' viewpoints, even if their judgment to decide is imperfect, could pave a way to interact, explain and convince the hesitant public about the advantages of vaccination (Velan, 2016).…”

Section: Parent-provider Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vaccine Hesitancy: The Growing Parent–Provider Divide

Kashyap¹,

Shrivastava²,

Krishnatray³

2019

Asia Pacific Media Educator

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Vast majority of parents continue to immunize their children against deadly infectious diseases. However, of late, growing number of them in both developed and developing nations have refused vaccination forcing the World Health Organization to declare vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten major threats to global health. This research reviews literature published in the last few years to understand and explain the phenomenon. It identifies 10 reasons for people’s reluctance for vaccination: parental concerns, perceived disease susceptibility, parent–provider relationship, government policies, role of school authorities, weak interpersonal communication (IPC) skills of health workers, religious beliefs, role of media, social media and information on vaccines, and lack of trust. The review categorizes parents who hesitate or refuse vaccination into four categories: obedients, ditherers, doubters and defiants. Finally, it summarizes recommendations and steps that researchers and policy makers have made to stem the growing concerns regarding vaccine hesitancy.

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“…There are many reasons for pockets of low vaccination rates, but one that has received considerable attention is vaccine hesitancy 4,5 -a degree of indecision about specific vaccines or vaccination in general that interferes with people agreeing to vaccine recommendations for themselves or their children. A recent systematic review 4 identified 3 components that may contribute to vaccine hesitancy: issues of confidence (related to trust in the provider, vaccines, or research), complacency (a perception that the vaccine is not needed or valued), and convenience (problems with access or cost).…”

Section: Why Not Vaccinate?mentioning

confidence: 99%