Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance across Vulnerable Subgroups: Challenges and Way Forward to Improve Public Health Globally

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 (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 211

Special Issue Editors

Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Maternal and Infantile Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties “G. D’Alessandro”, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Interests: public health; global health; health policy; health diplomacy; health equity; vulnerable populations; refugees and migrants health
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Principal Investigator/In-Charge Coordinator CSIR-CFTRI COVID-19 Testing Centre, Department of Biochemistry, CSIR- Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysuru 570020, India
Interests: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; pathogenesis; food supplements; immune-boosting; antioxidant; anti-inflammation
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Vaccination is the most powerful public health intervention in history. However, debates around vaccination acceptance and hesitancy have become increasingly complex. The term ‘vaccine hesitancy’ has been defined as ‘…the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite availability of vaccination services’ and it is a major threat to global public health.

Understanding such a complex and variable phenomenon across contexts and countries requires knowledge and data on determinants. Unfortunately, evidence about the determinants of vaccine hesitancy and acceptance, particularly in vulnerable groups, including migrant, refugees, ethnic, gender and sexual minorities, is limited—and sometimes contradictory.

To fill these gaps, it is important to explore personal influences on vaccine hesitancy, as well as determinants of vaccine uptake, such as legal, linguistics, social, cultural barriers, discrimination or racism, which limit access to vaccines and are particularly relevant to vulnerable groups.
In this Special Issue, all article, reviews, commentaries providing new insights on drivers of under-immunization, vaccine hesitancy and acceptance, and shedding new light into current efforts to ensure high levels of global vaccine coverage are welcome.

Dr. Palmira Immordino
Dr. P. Veeranna Ravindra
Guest Editors

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