Understanding vaccine acceptance and demand—and ways to increase them
Habersaat, K.B.; Jackson, C. · Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz · 2019 · Heft 12 · S. 32 bis 39
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Zusammenfassung
Vaccination is without doubt one of the most outstanding health inventions, saving millions of lives every year, and sparing children and adults from painful disease and absence from education and work [1]. It is also one of the success stories of health systems in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region, whose 53 Member States in 2018 celebrated record high coverage for the second dose of measles vaccine of 91% and 94% for the third dose of diphtheria–tetanus–pertussis vaccine [2]. Still, some individuals and population groups remain unvaccinated, or are not fully or timely vaccinated. Current measl…