New Insight in Vaccination and Public Health

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue entitled Vaccination and Public Health in the journal Vaccines, which is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal on public health. More information about the journal can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines.

Vaccination is one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in the history of medicine and has made a major contribution to increasing life expectancy. The economic, medical, and social burden of preventable infectious diseases has greatly diminished thanks to the success of vaccines and vaccinations. However, despite the scientific consensus on the safety and efficacy of vaccinations, there is still a discrepancy between the scientific evidence of their validity and the public’s perception of the risk attributed to them. The altered perception of the health risk, in this context, has a significant impact on health decisions made by populations; in fact, a discrepancy between real danger and perceived risk can lead to inappropriate behaviours that do not comply with the recommended public health measures.

The rampant phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy highlights the need to focus our attention on the complexity of the communication process, which is indispensable for adequate adherence to vaccination drives.

This Special Issue aims to publish evidence and observations in the field regarding, but not limited to, i) implementing population coverage and ii) countering the vaccine hesitancy phenomenon by adopting health communication and education strategies tailored to both the general public and healthcare workers. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Paolo Castiglia
Dr. Antonella Arghittu
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Vaccines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.