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April 15, 2024
"Immunisation programmes can better respond to vaccine hesitancy if their communication tools are informed by socioecological models. These models also provide an opportunity for further research to address communication challenges in a...
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April 5, 2024
The MOMENTUM Routine Immunization Transformation and Equity project works to increase equitable immunisation coverage in United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-supported countries around the world. Operating in 20 countries...
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April 2, 2024
"When migrant workers do not speak English or read their native language, pictographic materials are a necessary and effective tool for clinicians and health care providers to ensure public health messages are communicated."
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March 20, 2024
"There is a need to conduct community-based, behavioural science research with marginalized populations to identify community-specific and responsive solutions."
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March 19, 2024
"Effectively translating behavioural science research to practices and identifying behavioural interventions that can change consequential behaviours across settings requires concerted efforts..."
The uptake of COVID-19 booster shots has stalled in...
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March 19, 2024
"...research in Côte d'Ivoire suggested that encouragement from a friend or family member can motivate a person to overcome their hesitation, however, few newly vaccinated people discuss their vaccination experience with their social network."
This...
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March 15, 2024
"Access, amongst other approaches like communication, is crucial to achieving vaccine equity in developing countries, and will likely be relevant to the new malaria vaccine roll-out and other health products and services." - Niccolò F. Meriggi
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March 14, 2024
"The need for a behavior model that can be used to explain the vaccine adoption process in simple terms that resonate with practitioners is urgent."
Despite multiple studies showing a weak relationship between risk perception and willingness to...
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March 1, 2024
"Community intervention programmes to communicate important factual and scientific information using members of the community can be effective on improving COVID-19 vaccination uptake as demonstrated in this evaluation study."
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February 26, 2024
"The success of this intervention on a specific segment in the willingness continuum stresses the fact that vaccine hesitancy has many drivers and therefore must be addressed with different tools."
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February 23, 2024
"In settings where resistance and rampant misinformation against vaccines exist, the prospect of containing infectious diseases remains a challenge. Can delivery of information regarding the benefits of vaccination through personal home visits by...
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February 14, 2024
"It is clear that community-centered solutions will be critical to truly understand community needs and co-create local, people-centered solutions to boost vaccine demand and coverage."
The Sabin Vaccine Institute and the United Nations Children's...
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February 13, 2024
"In Sudan, social listening both validated suggested concerns and revealed new and nuanced concerns related to women's uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine that may have otherwise been missed."
The early COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Sudan experienced a...
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February 5, 2024
Although the world has experienced many epidemics, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is exactly that--novel. The impacts on society's way of life, education, family, and economy are drastic. As a result, people seek explanations that have answers...
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January 31, 2024
"The findings of the current study may help in devising a health model for the public from the developing world to deal with future pandemic situations."
Many factors influence people's attitudes toward vaccines in different socioeconomic,...
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January 30, 2024
"In seeking to inform future infodemic preparedness, readiness and prevention, understanding the needs and capacity of those working in infodemic management is vital."
During the COVID-19 pandemic, analysis of social media conversations about health...
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January 30, 2024
"Trust is shaped by multiple factors, including biology...and, most importantly, many structural factors (e.g., social, political, economic, and information systems)....Consequently, in order to advance our understanding of the precursors and...
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January 29, 2024
"Infodemic management: Policymakers can prepare for the next pandemic by maintaining an infrastructure for social listening, engaging behavioral scientists in pandemic preparedness, and strengthening spokespersons and health care personnel."
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January 24, 2024
"The findings contribute information about how individuals conceptualize and make decisions about adult vaccination, which can, in turn, inform strategies to integrate COVID-19 promotion and delivery with other disease responses in Malawi as well as...
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January 22, 2024
"Fearmongering about 'depopulation' by vaccines remains a longstanding antivaccine conspiracy theory, the base of which (that chemicals have been added to vaccines to deliberately cause infertility) has been twisted and modified over time."...
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