Background Public trust in immunization is an increasingly important global health issue.
Losses in confidence in vaccines and immunization programmes can lead to vaccine …

Background There is growing evidence of vaccine delays or refusals due to a lack of trust in
the importance, safety, or effectiveness of vaccines, alongside persisting access issues …

1 Executive summary The World Health Organization's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts
on Immunization (SAGE) define vaccine hesitancy as:“[a] delay in acceptance or refusal of …

Background Despite lacking scientific support, vaccine hesitancy is widespread. While
serious vaccine damage as a scientific fact is real yet statistically highly uncommon …

Background. Public confidence in vaccination is vital to the success of immunisation
programmes worldwide. Understanding the dynamics of vaccine confidence is therefore of …

While scholarly attention to date has focused almost entirely on individual-level drivers of
vaccine confidence, we show that macro-level factors play an important role in …

Vaccine hesitancy has become the focus of growing attention and concern globally despite
overwhelming evidence of the value of vaccines in preventing disease and saving the lives …

Background: The pace at which the present pandemic and future public health crises
involving viral infections are eradicated heavily depends on the availability and routine …

Vaccine hesitancy, defined as the refusal, delay, or acceptance with doubts about vaccine
usefulness and safety [1], is recognized by the World Health Organization as one of the 10 …

Objectives The success of vaccination strategies depends in part on population perceptions
of benefits and risks of vaccines and related confidence in vaccination. Better knowledge of …