Exploring key determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among individuals: An exploratory study globally.
1 UNICEF Health Section, UNICEF Nigeria, Maiduguri, Nigeria.
2 Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Rivers State University, Nigeria.
Review Article
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2024, 23(03), 684–694
Publication history:
Received on 26 July 2024; revised on 31 August 2024; accepted on 03 September 2024
Abstract:
SARS-CoV-2 virus gave rise to COVID-19 in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, and it quickly spread over the world to become a pandemic. The virus, which is mostly carried by respiratory droplets, spread at an unprecedented rate, causing a large number of deaths and extensive illness, necessitating lockdowns, travel bans, and social distancing policies by governments across the globe in an attempt to stop the spread, which severely disrupted daily life, the healthcare system, and economies.COVID-19 vaccines are biological materials designed to offer protection against the organism that causes the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 virus, played a crucial role in stopping the virus's spread and lowering the burden on healthcare systems around the globe. Although Covid-19 vaccines offers benefits which includes the prevention of severe illness and death through the reduction of the chance of COVID-19-related serious illness, hospital stays, and death, it was met with hesitancy by some population on the basis of a complex web of interrelated causes, such as political division, misinformation, socioeconomic inequities, and past mistrust of healthcare systems.Vaccine hesitancy contributed to lower-than-expected vaccination coverage in many regions, preventing the achievement of herd immunity and allowing the virus to continue spreading. Exploring this key determinants of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among individuals all over the world and possible solutions, is the focus of this research.
Keywords:
COVID-19; Determinant; Vaccine hesitancy; Exploration; Global
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