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Vaccine Hesitancy: Contemporary Issues and Historical Background
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Vaccination, despite being recognized as one of the most effective primary public health measures, is viewed as unsafe and unnecessary by an increasing number of individuals. Anxiety about vaccines and vaccination programs leading to vaccine hesitancy results from a complex mix of social and political influences, cultural and religious beliefs, the availability of and ability to interpret health and scientific information, and personal and population experiences of health systems and government policies. Vaccine hesitancy is becoming a serious threat to vaccination programs, and was identified as one of the World Health Organization’s top ten global health threats in 2019. The negative impact of anti-vaccination movements is frequently cited as one of the major reasons for rising vaccine hesitancy amongst the general public world-wide. This review discusses the various issues surrounding vaccine hesitancy and the anti-vaccine movement, starting with the definitions of vaccine hesitancy and the anti-vaccine movement in their early history and in the modern era, before discussing the key drivers of vaccine hesitancy, particularly across different regions of the world, with a focus on various countries with low-, middle-, or high-income economies with different socio-economic populations. The review concludes with the impact of vaccine hesitancy on herd immunity and social, psychological, and public health measures to counter vaccine hesitancy.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Nuwarda, R. F., Ramzan, I., Weekes, L., & Kayser, V.
- Venue
- Vaccines
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2022-09-22
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1595
- ISSN
- 2076-393X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4297008844
- Cited by
- 282
- References
- 110
- FWCI
- 41.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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