Vaccination as a social practice: towards a definition of personal, community, population, and organizational vaccine literacy

BMC Public Health

Research

Andrea Guazzini¹  Olfa Maghrebi¹  Marco Del Riccio²  Paolo Bonanni²  Patrizio Zanobini³  Guglielmo Bonaccorsi³  Chiara Lorini³  Valerio Allodola Ferro⁴  Orkan Okan⁵  Vieri Lastrucci⁶  Roberto Luigi Biasio⁷  Kristine Sørensen⁸  Duccio Giorgetti⁹  Lisa Rigon⁹ 

[1] Department of Education, Literatures, Intercultural Studies, Languages and Psychology, University of Florence, Via Di San Salvi 12, 50135, Florence, Italy;Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Giovanni Battista Morgagni 48, 50134, Florence, Italy;Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Viale Giovanni Battista Morgagni 48, 50134, Florence, Italy;Health Literacy Laboratory (HeLiLab), University of Florence, Viale Giovanni Battista Morgagni 48, 50134, Florence, Italy;Department of Law, Economics and Human Sciences, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Via Dell’Università 25, 89124, Reggio Calabria, Italy;Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University of Munich, 80992, Munich, Germany;Epidemiology Unit, Meyer’s Children University Hospital, Viale Gaetano Pieraccini, 24, 50139, Florence, Italy;Fondazione Giovanni Lorenzini, Viale Piave 35, 20129, Milan, Italy;Global Health Literacy Academy, Viengevej 100, 8240, Risskov, Denmark;Medical School of Specialization in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla 3, 50134, Florence, Italy;

关键词: Vaccine literacy;    Vaccine hesitancy;    Organization;    Health literacy;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12889-023-16437-6

 received in 2023-04-05, accepted in 2023-08-02,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundA comprehensive and agreed-upon definition of vaccine literacy (VL) could support the understanding of vaccination and help policy-makers and individuals make informed decisions about vaccines.MethodsTo shed some light on this debate and provide clarity, a scoping review was conducted to collect, summarize, and analyse available definitions of VL. Based on the findings of the scoping review, a new and comprehensive definition was proposed by a panel of experts.ResultsFifty-three articles were included, and two of them appeared to be the milestones around which the other definitions were grouped. The new definition proposed by the panel of experts included not only the personal perspective, but also the community, population, and organizational perspectives. Moreover, due to the increasing complexity of the social context with respect to the ability to navigate, understand, and use information and services, the definition of organizational vaccine literacy and the attributes of a vaccine literate healthcare organization have been proposed.ConclusionThe new definition can contribute to the overall paradigm of health literacy and its distinct component of vaccine literacy, possibly improving the implementation of public health strategies to allow vaccination to be understood as a social practice by the entire community. This study describes the conceptual foundations, the competencies, and the civic orientation to be considered when developing measurement tools devoted to assessing VL at the different levels and in different contexts.

【 授权许可】

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© BioMed Central Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2023. corrected publication 2023

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