What is the importance of vaccine hesitancy in the drop of vaccination coverage in Brazil?

The successful Programa Nacional de Imunizações do Brasil (Brazilian National Immunization Program) has been experiencing a major challenge with regard to vaccination coverage for children, which has been dropping. Several aspects are related, but certainly vaccine hesitancy has been strengthening i...

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Published in:Revista de saúde pública Vol. 52; p. 96
Main Author: Sato, Ana Paula Sayuri
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Brazil Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo 01.01.2018
Universidade de São Paulo
Subjects:
Anti-Vaccination Movement
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Immunization Programs
PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
SOCIOLOGY
Vaccination Coverage
Vaccination Refusal
Cobertura Vacinal
Vaccination Coverage
Anti-Vaccination Movement
Immunization Programs
Programas de Imunização
Recusa de Vacinação
Movimento contra Vacinação
Vaccination Refusal
ISSN:0034-8910, 1518-8787, 1518-8787
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Summary:The successful Programa Nacional de Imunizações do Brasil (Brazilian National Immunization Program) has been experiencing a major challenge with regard to vaccination coverage for children, which has been dropping. Several aspects are related, but certainly vaccine hesitancy has been strengthening itself as one of the main concerns of Brazilian public administrators and researchers. Vaccine hesitancy is the delay in acceptance or refusal despite having the recommended vaccines available in health services, being a phenomenon that varies over time, over location and over types of vaccines. Hesitant individuals are between the two poles of total acceptance and refusal of vaccination. Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new in European and North-American countries, and even in Brazil, it has been studied even if under another name. The drop of vaccination coverage observed from 2016 on reiterates the relevance of the theme, which must be better understood through scientific research.
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Conflict of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
ISSN:0034-8910
1518-8787
1518-8787
DOI:10.11606/S1518-8787.2018052001199