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Preparing for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy starts with informing your team and patients
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Preparing for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy starts with informing your team and patients
Monday 1 March 2021, 12:45 AM
Many people lack confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and view them as being unproven in safety and efficacy. Photo: US Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), on Wikimedia Commons
GP Jo Scott-Jones discusses the complex problem of vaccine hesitancy, which may threaten the progress New Zealand has made in tackling COVID-19
In 2019, WHO identified vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance or refusal to have vaccination against contagious diseases – as one of the top 10 global he, Determinants of vaccine hesitancy identified by WHO2
References
- WHO. Ten threats to global health in 2019. www.who.int
- WHO SAGE working group dealing with vaccine hesitancy. Strategies for addressing vaccine hesitancy – a systematic review. WHO: Geneva; 2014. https://bit.ly/3sZ1Qnz
- Ames HM, Glenton C, Lewin S. Parents' and informal caregivers' views and experiences of communication about routine childhood vaccination: a synthesis of qualitative evidence. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2017;2(2):CD011787.
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy. December 2020. www.mbie.govt.nz
- Medsafe. Vaccine Evaluation and Approval Process. November 2020. www.medsafe.govt.nz
- Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. There are four types of COVID-19 vaccines: here’s how they work. www.gavi.org
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