Heart of Doubt: Implicit Vaccine Hesitation Among Healthcare Professionals

Healthcare workers are a priority population for current COVID-19 vaccination strategies due to increased workplace exposure and contact with potentially at-risk patients.1Organizing the health of the worldWHO SAGE is committed to a framework for the allocation and prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination on September 14, 2020. In some European countries such as Belgium, Greece and France,2France has suspended 3,000 medical staff as Europe aims to reject vaccines. Currently, this group requires COVID-19 vaccination. However, studies show that various, but often significant, percentages of health care workers are hesitant to receive these vaccinations.3Biswas N. Mustafa T. Khubchandani J. Price JH The nature and extent of COVID-19 vaccination hesitation in healthcare professionals. This is highly relevant to vaccination campaigns, as healthcare professionals are one of the most reliable sources of vaccine information and have a direct impact on patients' vaccination decisions and social contacts.FourJambi C. Fabian M. Dancona F. et al.Parental Vaccine Controversy in Italy – Results of National Survey. In addition, inadequate vaccination uptake risks increasing COVID-19 infection, possibly leading to more hospitalizations and fewer medical staff available, increasing hospital workloads and therefore epidemics. The ability of the medical system to respond appropriately is reduced. Medical professionals often do not express vaccine-related concerns, especially to colleagues, due to institutional and social pressures on vaccination.This phenomenon can be grasped as follows. Implicit vaccine hesitation.This implicit vaccine hesitation manifests itself when people's vaccination status causes widespread tensions and social divisions within and throughout communities around the world. Active polarization between vaccinated and non-vaccinated may further impede the development of anxiety that must be addressed. Expressing vaccine-related concerns, especially among healthcare professionals, carries the risk of being lectured, ridiculed, stigmatized, or labeled as a conspiracy theorist or "anti-vaccine". increase. This risk is exacerbated by the social expectation that health care workers must protect the individual being treated, which means that these workers have a moral obligation to be vaccinated. This moral obligation can exacerbate the pressure on medical professionals who are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine. If healthcare professionals cannot express their hesitation, it will be more difficult to address their concerns. In these situations, healthcare professionals may face difficulties in developing confidence in the Covid-19 vaccine among the general public in which they participate. Thus, implicit hesitation can reduce core public confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine and national vaccination programs. It may also endanger future vaccination campaigns beyond COVID-19. Although there is little literature on this topic, "refusal of silence" has been identified as a major challenge for vaccination in Pakistan.FiveVaccine acquiescence and distrust are major challenges for vaccination teams.Understanding and dealing with implicit vaccine hesitation is an important but unexplored aspect of building overall confidence in vaccines for healthcare institutions and services. Identifying the most effective response to this urgent task requires a novel, proactive and interdisciplinary approach. Raising vaccine concerns in constructive dialogue contributes to personal and social well-being and resilience.Declaration of interestsCG, KP, SD, TK, TN, CVR and LWH are reporting grants from Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO-Research Foundation – Flanders) to socially hear vaccine concerns in Belgium.CS reports a grant from Johnson & Johnson and a grant from GSK on research on vaccine hesitation in various European countries.HL reports a grant from Merck for research on vaccine avoidance by healthcare providers. From GSK on honor for research and training sessions on vaccine acceptance during pregnancy. With a grant from AstraZeneca, we will conduct a webinar on co-vaccination with medical professionals.Resume; NV; TGV; AV does not disclose anything.ContributorLWH, SD, TN, TK, CVR, CS, CG: Writing-Original; HL, TGV, KGP, NV, AV, CV: Review and editing writing.References1.1.WHO SAGE is committed to a framework for the allocation and prioritization of COVID-19 vaccination on September 14, 2020. World Health Organization, 20202.2.France has suspended 3,000 medical staff as Europe aims to reject vaccines.Reuters. 2021; () 3.3.Biswas N. Mustafa T. Khubchandani J. Price JH The nature and extent of COVID-19 vaccination hesitation in healthcare professionals.J. Community health. 2021; 46: 1-84.4.Jambi C. Fabian M. Dancona F. et al.Parental Vaccine Controversy in Italy – Results of National Survey.vaccination. 2018; 36: 779-7875.5.Vaccine acquiescence and distrust are major challenges for vaccination teams.News lens Pakistan. 2018; () Article informationPublication historyRelease date: December 13, 2021IdentityDOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2021.100289Copyright© 2021 Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd. User license Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) | ScienceDirectAccess this article on ScienceDirect Sources 1/ https://Google.com/ 2/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00275-1/fulltext The mention sources can contact us to remove/changing this article

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