TY - JOUR T1 - COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-22-00043 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - e2200043 AU - Doug Storey Y1 - 2022/02/28 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/10/1/e2200043.abstract N2 - See related article by Kulkarni et al.As access to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination expands around the world, attention has turned to the factors that influence vaccine acceptance and hesitancy.1–4 For example, the COVID Behaviors Dashboard (https://covidbehaviors.org/),5 a collaboration between Facebook/META, Johns Hopkins University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Maryland, tracks reasons for vaccine hesitancy in 115 countries around the world.The percentage of unvaccinated people who simply don’t like vaccines and reject them outright is relatively small—about 14% globally.5 Some people experience structural barriers to vaccination,6 such as eligibility, difficulty making or getting an appointment, difficulty taking time off from work or school or needing childcare to go for vaccination, distance to a vaccination site, and language barriers. Naturally, the challenges people face vary somewhat from country to country and can change over time.Other common reasons for vaccine hesitancy are psychosocial in nature and more directly amenable to communication efforts to overcome them. These reasons include concern about side effects, uncertainty about vaccine effectiveness, wanting to wait and see if vaccines are safe, and perceived behavioral norms among one’s peers. While these psychosocial factors are … ER -