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What is Vaccine Hesitancy

Chapter 8
Library and Media Roles in Information Hygiene and Managing Information
The postponement in acceptance or rebuttal of vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services. Vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, varying across time, place, and vaccines.
Published in Chapter:
In the Heat of the COVID-19 Vaccine Apartheid: Where Do Libraries Stand?
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8713-3.ch008
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic has dealt a serious blow to the progress and stability of humanity in its quest to realise a sustainable future. The position of libraries and other key stakeholders in the development equation needs a fundamental rethinking in order to build capacity to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and its mutations. The challenges being encountered by developing countries in accessing COVID-19 vaccines serve as a wakeup call for all institutions to rethink, redefine, and restrategise how they can work in unison to provide solutions to save humanity from the effects of vaccine nationalism. The positions of all key stakeholders should resonate with the aspirations of the progressive world to ensure cooperation and camaraderie in ensuring egalitarian access to the COVID-19 vaccinations. This chapter seeks to unpack the phenomenon of the COVID-19 vaccine apartheid and raise awareness on the role of access to credible information in the wake of the pandemic.
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Chapter 8
What Society Can and Cannot Learn From Coherence: Theoretical and Practical Considerations
A reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated or to have one’s children vaccinated.
Published in Chapter: What Society Can and Cannot Learn From Coherence: Theoretical and Practical Considerations; From: Adapting Human Thinking and Moral Reasoning in Contemporary Society
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Chapter 5
A MOOC on Promoting Vaccination for Healthcare Professionals in Higher Education: Project IENE11 PROVAC
Vaccine hesitancy is when someone is left in limbo and cannot decide whether or not to get vaccinated, even though vaccines are available. This includes those who refuse to be vaccinated, those who are late in receiving vaccines, those who accept them but are undecided about their use, or those who get vaccinated with some but not others. Vaccine reluctance is somewhat complicated and context dependent, and can vary by time, place, and specific vaccines.
Published in Chapter: A MOOC on Promoting Vaccination for Healthcare Professionals in Higher Education: Project IENE11 PROVAC; From: New Perspectives in Teaching and Learning With ICTs in Global Higher Education Systems
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Chapter 3
Social Media and Health Communication: Vaccine Refusal/Hesitancy
Although vaccine availability is possible, it means a delay in accepting the administration of some vaccines or not allowing some vaccines to be administered.
Published in Chapter: Social Media and Health Communication: Vaccine Refusal/Hesitancy; From: Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
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