Politics matters for individual attitudes toward vaccine donation: cross-national evidence from the United States and Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vaccine equity has been a major concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the principle of vaccine equity, donor countries should apply the criterion of needs to make decisions about vaccine donation instead of considering recipient countries' economic status. We examine whether people follow the same criterion or consider other factors to decide which country to donate vaccines and how many vaccines should be delivered.

Methods

We conducted online surveys with the design of conjoint experiment in the United States and Taiwan in 2021. 1,532 American citizens and 1,587 Taiwanese citizens were interviewed. The respondents were broadly quota-matched to their respective demographic proportions on the dimensions of age, gender, and education. We estimated the

SUBMITTER: Hsiao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10283311 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature