Attitudes to vaccination: a critical review.
By O. Yaqub, Sophie Castle-Clarke, Nick Sevdalis, Joanna Chataway. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2014
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This paper provides a consolidated overview of public and healthcare professionals' attitudes towards vaccination in Europe by bringing together for the first time evidence across various vaccines, countries and populations. The paper relies on an extensive review of empirical literature published in English after 2009, as well as an analysis of unpublished market research data from member companies of Vaccines Europe. Our synthesis suggests that hesitant attitudes to vaccination are prevalent and may be increasing since the influenza pandemic of 2009. We define hesitancy as an expression of concern or doubt about the value or safety of vaccination. This means that hesitant attitudes are not confined only to those who refuse vaccination or those who encourage others to refuse vaccination. For many people, vaccination attitudes are shaped not just by healthcare professionals but also by an array of other information sources, including online and social media sources. We find that healthcare professionals report increasing challenges to building a trustful relationship with patients, through which they might otherwise allay concerns and reassure hesitant patients. We also find a range of reasons for vaccination attitudes, only some of which can be characterised as being related to lack of awareness or misinformation. Reasons that relate to issues of mistrust are cited more commonly in the literature than reasons that relate to information deficit. The importance of trust in the institutions involved with vaccination is discussed in terms of implications for researchers and policy-makers; we suggest that rebuilding this trust is a multi-stakeholder problem requiring a co-ordinated strategy.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science
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- Vaccine hesitancy and healthcare providers. (2016, background): “In another paper by Yaqub and colleagues, they too reiterate the importance of building trust in – and within – institutions, particularly pointing to the critical trust and support relationship needed between the policymakers and the HCPs, to ultimately build the trust of the public [47].”