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Bundesgesundheitsblatt special issue – Understanding vaccine acceptance and demand – and ways to increase them (2020)
The WHO recommends using a proven theoretical model to understand vaccination behaviours and has adapted the “COM‑B model” for their Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP) approach. This adapted model is described in the article.
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Public Health Panorama – New vaccine introduction: strengthening health literacy to increase health equity (2019)
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine can reduce inequalities in cervical cancer. Countries introducing the vaccine need a strategy and communication plan that address the health literacy of target populations.
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Vaccine – Identifying barriers and drivers to vaccination: a qualitative interview study with health workers in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2020)
Vaccination coverage in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been declining over recent years. A World Health Organization Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP) project is underway to gain insights into the underlying reasons for this, to develop tailored interventions.
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BMJ Open – Sample study protocol for adapting and/or translating the 5C scale to assess the psychological antecedents of vaccination (2020)
Published in 2018, the 5C scale is psychometrically validated to assess five psychological antecedents of vaccination. This sample study protocol provides a step-by-step guidance for the process of adapting the 5C scale to another country, language or cultural context.
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Eurosurveillance – Towards equity in immunisation (2019)
Despite the success of routine childhood immunisation programmes in reducing the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases, immunisation uptake varies among countries, and among groups and districts within countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region.
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Vaccine – Embracing social sciences to improve population health (2019)
Reaching health goals relies on engaging, listening to and understanding communities. Social interventions and bio-social investigation are critical tools. This is recognized in academia but, in practice very rarely a routine measure. Authors call for guidance and tools to ensure implementation in practice.
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Australian Journal of Primary Health – Improving child immunization rates in a disadvantaged community in New South Wales, Australia: a process evaluation for research translation (2019)
The World Health Organization’s Tailoring Immunization Programmes approach was used to develop a new strategy to increase child vaccination coverage in a disadvantaged community in New South Wales, Australia, including reminders, outreach and home visiting.
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HPV Newsletter – Multifactorial responses to complex challenges – the HPV vaccine controversy (2020)
The current global controversies related to the HPV vaccine have posed extraordinary challenges to otherwise resilient national immunization programs. Highly publicized resistance to a vaccine against a killer cancer whose safety and effectiveness are backed up by an increasing volume of solid evidence.
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HPV vaccine - Health 2020 priority area four: creating supportive environments and resilient communities. A compendium of inspirational examples (2018)
Republic of Moldova. Introducing the HPV vaccine: the need to strengthen resilience at multiple levels. PAGES 101-108
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Vaccine – Tailoring immunisation programmes: Using behavioural insights to identify barriers and enablers to childhood immunisations in a Jewish community in London, UK (2018)
Due to regular vaccine preventable disease outbreaks and sub-optimal immunisation uptake in the London borough of Hackney, home to the largest Charedi Orthodox Jewish community in Europe, it was decided, in consultation with the community, to implement the WHO Tailoring Immunization Programmes approach (TIP).
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Vaccine – The WHO Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP) approach: Review of implementation to date (2018)
The WHO Regional Office for Europe developed the Guide to tailoring immunization programmes (TIP), offering countries a process through which to diagnose barriers and motivators to vaccination in susceptible low vaccination coverage and design tailored interventions.
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Vaccine – Commentary: How to respond to vocal vaccine deniers in public (2018)
In spite of the huge positive impact of immunization on fighting infectious diseases and improving health outcomes, acceptance of vaccines cannot be taken for granted. Sadly, vaccine refusal and denial persists.
