Vaccine hesitation and the 'pandemic' of the unvaccined: What to do to face the new “Vaccine Revolt”?

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2176-7262.rmrp.2022.192095

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Vaccines, Vaccination coverage, Vaccination refusal, anti-vaccination movement, Covid-19

Abstract

The frequency of people hesitating to get vaccinated is increasing worldwide and regarding the covid-19 pandemic, this phenomenon has been increasingly noticed at a national level. This article exposes a brief presentation of the historical factors of this phenomenon, approaches its main determinants and conceptual model, in addition to presenting a set of communication strategies in vaccine health that can be implemented to face this problem to raise the credibility and adherence to immunizations.

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Author Biographies

  • Claudio José dos Santos Júnior, Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas

    Mestre em Ensino em Saúde e Tecnologia. Médico

  • Antônio de Pádua Medeiros de Carvalho Neto, Faculdade de Medicina do Centro Universitário CESMAC (FAMED/CESMAC).

    Graduando em Medicina

  • Thiago José Matos Rocha, Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas

    Docente do Programa de Mestrado em Ensino em Saúde e Tecnologia

     

  • Paulo José Medeiros de Souza Costa, Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas

    Doutor em Ciências da Saúde. Médico Pediatra. Docente do Programa de Mestrado em Ensino em Saúde e Tecnologia

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2022-05-04 — Updated on 2022-05-04

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Santos Júnior CJ dos, Carvalho Neto A de PM de, Rocha TJM, Costa PJM de S. Vaccine hesitation and the ’pandemic’ of the unvaccined: What to do to face the new “Vaccine Revolt”?. Medicina (Ribeirão Preto) [Internet]. 2022 May 4 [cited 2024 Jun. 1];55(1):e-192095. Available from: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/rmrp/article/view/192095