Assessments of global drivers of vaccine hesitancy in 2014-Looking beyond safety concerns.

ABSTRACT: Vaccine hesitancy has become the focus of growing attention and concern globally despite overwhelming evidence of the value of vaccines in preventing disease and saving the lives of millions of individuals every year. Measuring vaccine hesitancy and its determinants worldwide is important in order to understand the scope of the problem and for the development of evidence-based targeted strategies to reduce hesitancy. Two indicators to assess vaccine hesitancy were developed to capture its nature and scope at the national and subnational level to collect data in 2014: 1) The top 3 reasons for not accepting vaccines according to the national schedule in the past year and whether the response was opinion- or assessment-based and 2) Whether an assessment (or measurement) of the level of confid

SUBMITTER: Marti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5332020 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature