Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases.
Hum Vaccin Immunother
; 16(11): 2586-2593, 2020 11 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-660414
ABSTRACT
Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major threat to global health. Vaccine hesitancy may be fueled by health information obtained from a variety of sources, including new media such as the Internet and social media platforms. As access to technology has improved, social media has attained global penetrance. In contrast to traditional media, social media allow individuals to rapidly create and share content globally without editorial oversight. Users may self-select content streams, contributing to ideological isolation. As such, there are considerable public health concerns raised by anti-vaccination messaging on such platforms and the consequent potential for downstream vaccine hesitancy, including the compromise of public confidence in future vaccine development for novel pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2 for the prevention of COVID-19. In this review, we discuss the current position of social media platforms in propagating vaccine hesitancy and explore next steps in how social media may be used to improve health literacy and foster public trust in vaccination.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Vaccination
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Information Dissemination
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Social Media
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Vaccination Refusal
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Qualitative research
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Hum Vaccin Immunother
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
21645515.2020.1780846
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