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Our goal is to provide you with accessible content about vaccine hesitancy. So, you will be able to take part in conversations and debates with your friends, family, classmates…
Opposition to vaccines is found in different contexts and disguised in several ways. These questions are at the heart of what the World Health Organization (WHO) termed “vaccine hesitancy” in 2012. The term describes the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services (Blume, 2017; Peretti-Watel et al., 2015). In a nutshell, vaccine hesitancy is a decision-making process influenced by a plethora of factors that shape the decision to accept some or all vaccines in accordance with the recommended schedule (Buss, 2019).
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This project was also realized in the frame of the Erasmus+ Mundus Joint Master Degree “Leading International Vaccinology Education” (EMJMD LIVE). It is coordinated by the University of Lyon (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UCBL, France), and organized by five European universities from the Schengen area and co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Bibliography and webography consulted in December 2021:
Blume S. (2017). Immunization: how vaccines became controversial. Chapter eight: The roots of doubt. Reaktion Books. 216-251: https://academic-oup-com.eres.qnl.qa/shm/article-abstract/31/2/438/4793408?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Buss I. (2019). RSTMH (for The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygien) > News & Blogs > Blogs > Vaccine hesitancy: confidence, complacency and convenience: https://rstmh.org/news-blog/blog/vaccine-hesitancy-confidence-complacency-and-convenience
Peretti-Watel P., Larson H. J., Ward J. K., Schulz W. S., & Verger P. (2015). Vaccine hesitancy: clarifying a theoretical framework for an ambiguous notion. PLoS Currents, 7: ecurrents.outbreaks.6844c80ff9f5b273f34c91f71b7fc289
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