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Your vaccine attitude determines your altitude. What are the determinants of attitudes toward vaccination?

Your vaccine attitude determines your altitude. What are the determinants of attitudes toward vaccination?

Authors :
Alfano, Vincenzo
Ercolano, Salvatore
Source :
Vaccine. Nov2022, Vol. 40 Issue 48, p6987-6997. 11p.
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

Attitudes toward vaccination are doubtless an important determinant of public health, and this became evident after the first year of the last COVID-19 pandemic. The issue, long-debated within European societies, especially with respect to occasional surges of diseases in given years, has become a crucial determinant of the wellbeing of a country since 2021. In this study, using microdata from a 2019 Eurobarometer survey, we frame and deepen our knowledge about the main determinants of vaccination attitudes as observed by the related literature. We argue that a positive attitude toward vaccination may be due to individualistic or altruistic reasons, or various incentives; our analysis aims to improve our knowledge about the determinants of such a complex decision. Our findings, obtained by means of a quantitative analysis that employs Ordered Probit, Ordered Logit and Generalized Ordered Logit estimations, provide complete support for some of the theories that have been debated in the literature, limited support for others because of mixed evidence, and no support for some. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0264410X
Volume :
40
Issue :
48
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Vaccine
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
160208995
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.10.038