The links between COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and non-pharmaceutical interventions.

ABSTRACT: The information set from which individuals make their decision on vaccination includes signals from trusted agents, such as governments, community leaders and the media. By implementing restrictions, or by relaxing them, governments can provide a signal about the underlying risk of the pandemic and indirectly affect vaccination take-up. Rather than focusing on measures specifically designed to increase vaccine acceptance, this paper studies how governments' non-pharmaceutical policy responses to the pandemic can modify the degree of preventive health behavior, including vaccination. To do so, we use repeated waves of a global survey on COVID-19 Beliefs, Behaviors and Norms covering 18 countries from October 2020 to March 2021. Controlling for the usual determinants, we explore how individu

SUBMITTER: Bussolo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840231 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature