The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines - Tackling Issues of Access and Hesitancy

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Immunization against disease is among the most successful global health efforts of the modern era, and substantial gains in vaccination coverage rates have been achieved worldwide. However, that progress has stagnated in recent years, leaving an estimated 20 million children worldwide either undervaccinated or completely unvaccinated. The determinants of vaccination uptake are complex, mutable, and context specific. A primary driver is vaccine hesitancy - defined as a "delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services". The majority of vaccine-hesitant people fall somewhere on a spectrum from vaccine acceptance to vaccine denial. Vaccine uptake is also hampered by socioeconomic or structural barriers to access.

On August 17-20, 2020, the Forum on Microbial Threats at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a 4-day virtual workshop titled The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines: Tackling Issues of Access and Hesitancy. The workshop focused on two main areas (vaccine access and vaccine confidence) and gave particular consideration to health systems, research opportunities, communication strategies, and policies that could be considered to address access, perception, attitudes, and behaviors toward vaccination. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.

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230 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-46156-1
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-46164-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/26134

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines: Tackling Issues of Access and Hesitancy: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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This workshop, the first in a series on the topic of vaccine access and vaccine hesitancy, took place via Zoom on May 28, 2020. The remaining meetings are scheduled for August 17-20, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic made clear that people want scientific information, but many distrust it at the same time, making questions of vaccine hesitancy even more prominent. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-68160-X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/25895

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Vaccine Access and Hesitancy: Part One of a Workshop Series: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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