Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy as an Interaction‐Based Phenomenon

Sociology of Health & Illness, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 47(4)

Published: April 12, 2025

The paper discusses the role of interaction between parents and healthcare professionals in overcoming or heightening childhood vaccine hesitancy. Childhood hesitancy is seen as a set attitudes behaviours-that is, dispositions-that are highly dependent on how trust vulnerability intersect during vaccination appointments. Drawing rapid team ethnography conducted Northwest Italy, we discuss parents' changes along specific trajectories, depending manage epistemic conflicts with hesitant parents. We employ concept interactional to show can be eroded restored interactions, regardless initial capital. Healthcare professionals' discursive interactive strategies inoculation have long-term effects interpersonal institutional both immunisation system. If fail embrace their reciprocal vulnerability, building system flawed.

Language: Английский

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Drivers of Noncompliance With Vaccine Mandates—The Interplay Between Distrust, Rationality, Morality, and Social Motivation

Regulation & Governance, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 5, 2025

ABSTRACT COVID‐19 amplified the issue of public resistance to government vaccination programs. Little attention has focused on people's moral reasons for noncompliance, which differ from—but often build upon—the epistemic claims they make about vaccine safety and efficacy, disease severity, trustworthiness government. This study explores drivers noncompliance with program in Western Australia, using in‐depth interviews refusers. Distrust concerns safety, necessity (rationality) drive when is voluntary. When governments mandate vaccines, rationales expand include cost–benefit analyses consequences, consideration available alternatives, justifications, policytakers expressing “morality policy reactance” toward mandates as morality (rather than regulatory) policies. Our theoretical framework shows distrust, rationality, interrelated supported by social motivation. We consider implications suggest holistic measures.

Language: Английский

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“I can't see the forest for the ticks, uhm, trees …”: The role of online forums in parents' vaccination trajectories

Social Science & Medicine, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 357, P. 117183 - 117183

Published: Aug. 5, 2024

When it comes to health-related information-seeking behavior, online communities play a key role for some groups, such as parents. With case study of in loosely organized vaccination system, that Austria, we how parents make use prominent forum (parents.at) their trajectories and situate this analysis its socio-political context. Based on inductive qualitative relevant threads (n = 27), find forums three ways: First, the serves platform through which seek orientation fragmented system. Second, offers space sharing, collecting, evaluating different forms expertise. In doing so, carve out they can comfortably put lay expertise credentialed par, particularly advice peers. Third, basis, deliberating future or past vaccination-related decisions. frequently draw idiosyncratic notions individual risks benefits. These practices enable accumulate share what label navigational capital. We conclude resort spaces both subjective need and, some, result dysfunction national childhood program little

Language: Английский

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Vaccine policies in France and Europe

Current Opinion in Immunology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 92, P. 102513 - 102513

Published: Dec. 15, 2024

This review outlines the outcome of COVID-19 vaccination campaign in France and assesses respective roles information coercion its overall success. These data are then put into perspective evolution acceptance France.

Language: Английский

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