Vaccine hesitancy: An overview

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1763-1773

  Dubé, Eve ^a,b,c   Laberge, Caroline ^d   Guay, Maryse ^b,d,e,f   Bramadat, Paul ^g   Roy, Réal ^g   Bettinger, Julie ^h,i  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^e Centre de Recherche CSSS Champlain Charles le Moyne   (Canada)

^f Direction de Santé Publique de la Montérégie   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁱ WOMEN S HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision making; Psychosocial factors; Review; Socio cultural factors; Vaccination; Vaccine hesitancy

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG SAFETY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORALITY; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SUBJECTIVE NORM; TRUST; VACCINATION; VACCINE HESITANCY;

DECISION-MAKING; PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; REVIEW; SOCIO-CULTURAL FACTORS; VACCINATION; VACCINE-HESITANCY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84879799311     PISSN: 21645515     EISSN: 2164554X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/hv.24657     Document Type: Review

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