Insights into vaccine hesitancy from systems thinking, Rwanda

CONCLUSION: The application of behavioural frameworks and systems thinking revealed vaccine hesitancy mechanisms in Rwandan communities that demonstrate the interrelationship between immunization services and caregivers' vaccination behaviour. Confidence-building social structures and context-dependent challenges that affect vaccine uptake were also identified.PMID:34737471 | PMC:PMC8542260 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.20.285258

Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - November 5, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Catherine Decouttere Stany Banzimana P ål Davidsen Carla Van Riet Corinne Vandermeulen Elizabeth Mason Mohammad S Jalali Nico Vandaele Source Type: research