From listening to my public health colleagues within APHA's Affiliates, I've put together this list of action items to counteract vaccine
hesitancy:
Historically, there have been relatively few published SA studies using household surveys for investigating vaccination coverage, and none specifically measuring vaccine
hesitancy. This may be because even district-level household surveys are costly, while more affordable small sub-district and community-based studies, often carried out for postgraduate research, often lack validity.
Incidentally, the British study published in 1998 that linked autism to childhood vaccines, which caused quite a stir and is responsible for much of the vaccine
hesitancy of parents in the western world, was actually retracted after it was exposed to be an elaborate fraud.
The
hesitancy of sellers can be seen in the new instructions to sell balance, which is at its lowest level in the survey's 20-year history.
Vaccine
hesitancy - also referred to as vaccine refusal, anxiety, social resistance and more - is "complex and context specific varying across time, place and vaccines," according to WHO.
"Vaccine
hesitancy too has stemmed from misconceptions rooted in anti-vaccination propagandaVaccine
hesitancy too has stemmed from misconceptions rooted in anti-vaccination propaganda circulated by certain elements in the state.
The Department of Health (DOH) said that the loss of public confidence and trust in vaccines in the immunization program brought about by the Dengvaxia controversy has been documented as one of many factors that contributed to vaccine
hesitancy in the country.
This is partly why the World Health Organisation last month called 'vaccine
hesitancy' one of the 10 biggest threats to global health, noting the shocking 30 percent increase in measles cases worldwide last year.
While there may have been initial
hesitancy to make CTV inventory available, that's over.
Vaccine
hesitancy is defined in the literature as the refusal, delay or modification of the recommended vaccine schedule (Macdonald, 2015).
So using the quality improvement methodology known as DMAIC--for Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control--the investigators surveyed Mayo NICU physicians and nurses and identified three root causes of the quality gap: lack of staff knowledge of the routine immunization schedule, lack of awareness of when a NICU patient's vaccines were actually due, and parental vaccine
hesitancy.
The researchers found that 37 parents expressed
hesitancy at least one time in many ways, including assertive responses (27 visits), questions (16 visits), and concerns (12 visits).
According to a study conducted by the University of Waterloo, a history of drug scandals, medical training practices, and a lack of political priority placed on disease prevention that started in the 1960s could be responsible for the immunisation apathy, also known as vaccine
hesitancy, we're seeing today.
"And all of a sudden there was a
hesitancy to Liverpool's game when they had looked extremely good before then and looked like they were going to win comfortable.
