Vaccination as a social practice: towards a definition of personal, community, population, and organizational vaccine literacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A comprehensive and agreed-upon definition of vaccine literacy (VL) could support the understanding of vaccination and help policy-makers and individuals make informed decisions about vaccines.

Methods

To shed some light on this debate and provide clarity, a scoping review was conducted to collect, summarize, and analyse available definitions of VL. Based on the findings of the scoping review, a new and comprehensive definition was proposed by a panel of experts.

Results

Fifty-three articles were included, and two of them appeared to be the milestones around which the other definitions were grouped. The new definition proposed by the panel of experts included not only the personal perspective, but also the community, population, and organizational perspecti

SUBMITTER: Lorini C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10408168 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature