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Vaccine Literacy—helping Everyone Decide to Accept Vaccination [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health Communication, 2020
Vaccines are one of our most visible successes in medical science. Originally developed in the 18th century, vaccination initiatives since the first one targeting smallpox have decreased sickness a...
Scott C, Ratzan, Ruth M, Parker
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Seasonal and 2009 Pandemic H1N1 Vaccine Acceptance as a Predictor for COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance [PDF]

open access: yesCureus, 2022
The emergence of COVID-19 also began an unprecedented production and distribution of several novel COVID-19 vaccines to combat the pandemic. Unfortunately, with the history of vaccine hesitancy in the United States and abroad, concern remains regarding the ability to vaccinate enough of the population to achieve herd immunity. In this study, 101 adults
Nair, Priya, Wales, Danielle P
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Acceptance of varicella vaccination [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020
Varicella is a common vaccine-preventable disease that usually presents in children as a mild infection; however, severe complications also occur. The burden of varicella is significant in the terms of incidence, complication, and hospitalization rate related to varicella and economic disease burden.
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Vaccination Acceptability in Hajj Pilgrims [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Travel Medicine, 2011
In their article about the acceptance of diphtheria, tetanus, and poliomyelitis (dTP) vaccination in Dutch pilgrims in preparation for the Hajj, Keles and colleagues 1 reported a low 13% vaccination coverage and a 24% acceptance rate in those individuals who were offered a booster vaccination.
Philippe, Gautret   +2 more
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Vaccine acceptance: The UK perspective [PDF]

open access: yesHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2013
The United Kingdom has had a long history with vaccine acceptability dating back to Edward Jenner's theory of small pox vaccination. More recently, the discredited, Wakefield study published in 1998 continues to cause MMR skepticism. In pregnant women pertussis vaccination has been considerably more successful than influenza vaccination.
Ford, John A   +2 more
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Addressing vaccine concerns through the spectrum of vaccine acceptance

open access: yesSocial Science & Medicine, 2023
Several studies have examined attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines, giving prominence to hesitancy and conceptual models that seek to explain its prevalence, mostly in high-income contexts. An alternative conceptual approach that prioritises an understanding of vaccine concerns, the rationality of the questions people have, the political and media ...
null Maureen Ayikoru   +6 more
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Patient acceptance of influenza vaccination

open access: yesThe American Journal of Medicine, 1991
To determine whether patients' demographic, medical, and personal characteristics, including attitudes and beliefs about vaccination, health, and medical providers, are associated with acceptance of influenza vaccine.Nine hundred sixty-five patients attending a university hospital-based general medicine clinic during the fall influenza vaccination ...
N H, Fiebach, C M, Viscoli
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Vaccine hesitancy: acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine in Pakistan

open access: yesClinical and Experimental Vaccine Research, 2023
The delay in acceptance or refusal to get vaccinated despite the availability of services is called vaccine hesitancy. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative in Pakistan faced consistent barriers preventing the eradication of the disease in the country.
Sheze Haroon Qazi   +2 more
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Acceptability of COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Maternal and Child Health and AIDS (IJMA), 2021
As Africa prepares to overcome the difficult challenges of COVID-19 vaccination roll-outs, a number of factors, including equitable access, effective and efficient sufficient supply chains, a scope of established determinants will need to be considered in order to enhance vaccine acceptability and uptake.
Wirsiy, Frankline Sevidzem   +5 more
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Influenza vaccination--acceptance in an industrial population [PDF]

open access: yesOccupational and Environmental Medicine, 1974
Smith, J. W. G., Pollard, R., Fletcher, W. B., Barker, R., and Lewis, J. R. (1974). British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 31, 292-297. Influenza vaccination—acceptance in an industrial population. Influenza vaccination was offered in a pharmaceutical factory of approximately 6 000 employees in December 1971 and again in December 1972.
J W, Smith   +4 more
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