COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Five C's to Tackle Behavioral and Sociodemographic Factors
2021
Reversing and mitigating the ongoing damage associated with the COVID-19 pandemic requires that 60-70% of the world’s population needs to be vaccinated. This article acknowledges that hesitancy is one of the most substantial hurdles to vaccination uptake at levels that would achieve herd immunity. Authors define hesitancy as “a delay in acceptance or refusal despite availability.”
Five factors are proposed to tackle vaccine hesitancy, referred to as the five “C’s”:
- Confidence (importance, safety and efficacy of vaccines)
- Complacency (perception of low risk and low disease severity)
- Convenience (access issues dependent on the context, time and specific vaccine being offered)
- Communications (sources of information)
- Context (sociodemographic characteristics)
This description was adapted from the publication abstract.
COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Five C's to Tackle Behavioral and Sociodemographic Factors
Source:
Razai MS, Oakeshott P, Esmail A et al. COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Five C's to Tackle Behavioural and Sociodemographic Factors. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 2021; 114 (6): 295-298. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F01410768211018951