Skip to main content

Exploring Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy: A Resource for Healthcare Professionals

2. What is vaccine hesitancy?

Currently there is no universally agreed upon definition of vaccine hesitancy. However, one prominent definition from the World Health Organisation is:

Delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccine services

What is certain is that there are multiple factors or contexts which can contribute to vaccine hesitancy.

Please click on the coloured segments on the diagram to identify some of the major factors or contexts influencing hesitancy.

Before we get to the scenarios, lets see how much you know about vaccine hesitancy:

Before we start, click here to answer two questions

Please click each segment of the diagram. Reveal All

  • Technological
  • Healthcare
  • Social
  • Generational
  • Family
  • Media
Factors influencing vaccine hesitancy (Technology, healthcare, family,generational,media and social) image/svg+xml Segement 1, Technological Segement 2, Healthcare Segement 3, Social Segement 4, Generational Segement 5, Family Segement 6, Media>
Document Top