"This is most likely not the correct vaccine": Analyzing COVID-19's viral spread and vaccine anxieties in Ghana, Cameroon, and Malawi.
Soc Sci Med
; 329: 116001, 2023 Jul.
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| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2328124
ABSTRACT
Following the successful development of vaccines for COVID-19, attention turned to the problem of vaccine access. However, in contexts where vaccines are available, hesitancy remains a major problem. Informed theoretically by the scholarship on vaccine anxiety, this paper uses a qualitative research approach that included 144 semi-structured interviews to investigate how social and political dynamics shaped people's perspectives in particular environments in Ghana, Cameroon, and Malawi about COVID-19's viral spread and COVID-19 vaccines. Vaccines and the viral spread of COVID-19 are related to political tensions and class-related fractures in particular contexts, and how the public interprets COVID-19's viral spread and engages with vaccination is based on people's social and political environment and their experience. Subjectivities are also rooted in coloniality. Vaccine confidence goes beyond clinical and regulatory authority approvals, and encompasses forces that are economic, social, and political in nature. Thus, an exclusive focus on technical prescriptions for enhancing vaccine uptake will not achieve significant positive results.
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Asunto principal:
Vacunas
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Estudio pronóstico
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Investigación cualitativa
Tópicos:
Vacunas
Límite:
Humanos
País/Región como asunto:
Africa
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Soc Sci Med
Año:
2023
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