• S. Afr. Med. J. · Dec 2022

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    Factors that influence parental and caregiver acceptance of routine childhood vaccination: Summary of a qualitative evidence synthesis.

    • S Cooper, B-M Schmidt, A Swartz, C J Colvin, N Leon, E Z Sambala, A Jaca, N Gloeck, N Pillay, T Kredo, and C Wiysonge.
    • Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa; School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. sara.cooper@mrc.ac.za.
    • S. Afr. Med. J. 2022 Dec 1; 112 (12): 890891890-891.

    AbstractWe summarise a Cochrane review of qualitative evidence that explored parents' views and practices around routine childhood vaccination, and provide implications for research and practice that are relevant to the South African (SA) context. Many public health interventions to encourage vaccination are informed by an assumption that vaccine hesitancy is due to a lack of knowledge or irrational forms of thinking. The findings from this review suggest that childhood vaccination views and practices are complex social processes that are shaped by multiple factors and carry a variety of meanings. As such, we suggest that biomedical approaches must be supplemented by more nuanced and sociopolitically informed strategies for enhancing and sustaining childhood vaccination practices in SA.

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