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Sociological Determinants and Delivery System of Vaccination
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Special Issue "Sociological Determinants and Delivery System of Vaccination"

A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 2552

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Weibing Wang

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Guest Editor
1. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2. Shanghai Institute of Infectious Disease and Biosecurity, Shanghai, China
3. Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Interests: vaccine effectiveness; pneumococcal diseases; social determinants
Dr. Tao Zhang
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Guest Editor
Department of Epidemiology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Interests: vaccine effectiveness; pneumococcal conjugate vaccines

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Vaccination is one of the most effective public health interventions on mortality reduction and population growth. Generalize immunization and increasing vaccine uptake are the cost-effectiveness measure for health improvement. While there still are many challenges on vaccination worldwide, including declined public trust in vaccination, spread vaccine hesitancy around, geographic difference in delivery of vaccines, etc.

As we known, sociological factors are one of the major determinants of vaccine uptakes. The affordable and easily accessible vaccines, and high vaccine confidence will increase the vaccination coverage.  While some culture and rumors on vaccines, and vaccine hesitancy will sharply decrease the vaccines uptake. To achieve a more extensive understanding of recent scientific knowledge and current trends in sociological determinants of vaccination, this special issue is focused on the recent scientific and technical progresses made in this field. Based on your extensive knowledge and experience, we invite you to contribute with an original report, original observation or review, to highlight (i) determinants of vaccine uptake, (ii) interventions to improve the vaccine uptake, (iii) vaccine hesitancy, and (iv) recent advances in novel vaccine delivery systems.

Dr. Weibing Wang
Dr. Tao Zhang
Guest Editors

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  • vaccination
  • delivery systems
  • sociological determinants

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Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women
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Mehmet Akif Sezerol
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Zeynep Meva Altaş
Vaccines 2023, 11(2), 257; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11020257 - 25 Jan 2023
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Immigrants have difficulties in the use of essential health services such as vaccinations. Vaccine uptake among pregnant immigrant women is very low. The aim of the study was to examine the vaccination status of pregnant immigrant women who received health services in an [...] Read more.
Immigrants have difficulties in the use of essential health services such as vaccinations. Vaccine uptake among pregnant immigrant women is very low. The aim of the study was to examine the vaccination status of pregnant immigrant women who received health services in an immigrant health center (IHC) affiliated to primary health care institutions. The research is a retrospective-designed cross-sectional type of study. The study sample consists of pregnant Syrian women who received health care from the strengthened IHC of a District Health Directorate in Istanbul between August 2020 and 2022. Age, trimesters, number of pregnancies, high-risk pregnancy status, vaccination dates and status against influenza, COVID-19 and tetanus, and vaccine types of COVID-19 were evaluated. The statistical significance level was determined as p < 0.05. None of the pregnant women had received the influenza vaccine. Of the women whose tetanus vaccine data were evaluated, 29.7% had received at least two doses of the tetanus vaccine. Of the pregnant women, 19.4% were vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum two doses and 4.2% had a COVID-19 infection during their pregnancy. None of the women with the COVID-19 infection were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The vaccine uptake of pregnant immigrant women is very low. Public health interventions are needed to improve vaccination coverage among disadvantaged groups. Full article
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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Related Factors among Unvaccinated Pregnant Women during the Pandemic Period in Turkey
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Mehmet Akif Sezerol
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Selin Davun
Vaccines 2023, 11(1), 132; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11010132 - 05 Jan 2023
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The COVID-19 virus appeared in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread rapidly all over the world. Vaccination guidelines have recommended pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to prevent disease. This study aimed to understand the willingness of pregnant women to vaccinate and [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 virus appeared in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread rapidly all over the world. Vaccination guidelines have recommended pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to prevent disease. This study aimed to understand the willingness of pregnant women to vaccinate and the factors associated with their hesitation and resistance. This cross-sectional study was conducted between March and April 2022. The sample size was not calculated and tried to reach all pregnant women who did not have any COVID-19 vaccine. In the first part of the questionnaire, socio-demographic questions, and in the last part, the short form of the 12-item anti-vaccine scale, which was prepared as a 5-point Likert scale, were applied. The study was completed with 561 pregnant women. The mean score of the pregnant women who participated in this study from the vaccine hesitancy scale was found to be 33.40 ± 6.07. It was found that as the income of pregnant women decreased, the vaccine hesitancy scores decreased. Vaccine hesitancy scores of those who stated no one gave advice were significantly higher. The vaccination of pregnant women will bring significant success to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic when implemented as part of the public health policies of countries. Full article
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Optimization of Vaccination Clinics to Improve Staffing Decisions for COVID-19: A Time-Motion Study
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Xinyu Wang
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Jinhua Pan
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Zhixi Liu
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Weibing Wang
Vaccines 2022, 10(12), 2045; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10122045 - 29 Nov 2022
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As the COVID-19 pandemic disturbed people’s daily life for more than 2 years, many COVID-19 vaccines have been carried forward systematically to curb the transmission of the virus. However, high vaccination tasks bring great challenges to personnel allocation. We observed nine vaccination clinics [...] Read more.
As the COVID-19 pandemic disturbed people’s daily life for more than 2 years, many COVID-19 vaccines have been carried forward systematically to curb the transmission of the virus. However, high vaccination tasks bring great challenges to personnel allocation. We observed nine vaccination clinics in Huzhou and Shanghai and built a discrete-event simulation model to simulate the optimal staffing of vaccination clinics under 10 different scenarios. Based on the result of the simulations, we optimized the allocation of vaccination staff in different stages of epidemic development by province in China. The results showed that optimizing staffing could both boost service utilization and shorten the queuing time for vaccination recipients. Taking Jilin Province as an example, to increase the booster vaccination rate within 3 months, the number of vaccination staff members needed was 2028, with a continuous small-scale breakout and 2,416 under a stable epidemic situation. When there was a shortage of vaccination staff, the total number of vaccination clinic staff members needed could be significantly reduced by combining the preview and registration steps. This study provides theoretical support for the personnel arrangement of COVID-19 vaccinations of a booster dose by province and the assessment of current vaccination staff reserves. Full article
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