Vaccine Hesitancy and Child Immunizations: Rationales, Issues and Knowledge Gaps
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Vaccines and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 226234
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Interests: public health; vaccines; prevention; infectious diseases; one health; vaccine hesitancy
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Dear Colleagues,
Globally, infant and childhood vaccine coverage rates are still not high enough, with outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases occurring frequently even in high-income countries. Vaccine hesitancy is one of the factors explaining suboptimal percentages of vaccination coverage, defined by the SAGE group as a “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccine services”. The decision not to vaccinate or delay vaccine shots comes from a complex decision-making process influenced by numerous factors related to population, context, environment, historical period and single vaccine.
This recent-years worldwide increase in vaccine hesitancy has lead the World Health Organization to list vaccine hesitancy as one of its top 10 health threats facing the world in 2019. This has led several high-, middle- and low income countries to enact, strengthen or contemplate mandatory and/or recommended infant and childhood immunization in order to address this novel gap.
This Special Issue focuses on the knowledge and strategies to reduce vaccine hesitancy and improve vaccination coverage rates in the group of infant and childhood. Submission of original articles, systematic reviews, short communications, and other types of article on related topics are welcome. Manuscripts will follow standard Journal peer-review practices, and those accepted for publication will appear in the special issue on Vaccine Hesitancy and Child Immunizations: Rationales, Issues and Knowledge Gaps.
Prof. Davide Gori
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- vaccine hesitancy
- child immunizations
- vaccination coverage rates
- interventions and strategies
- rationales, issues and knowledge
- vaccine-preventable diseases
- adverse events
- vaccine uptake
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