COVID-19 Vaccine Passport and International Traveling: The Combined Effect of Two Nudges on Americans’ Support for the Pass

Sotis, Chiara; Allena, Miriam; Reyes, Renny; Romano, Alessandro

doi:10.3390/ijerph18168800

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“…COVID-19 vaccination is not mandatory in Thailand. However, in some countries, vaccination has become compulsory [24,25], or a system has been established in which people cannot travel without vaccination [26][27][28]. Even if no such compulsion exists, if the majority of the people around one person are vaccinated, remaining unvaccinated will be difficult for that person as they will feel social pressure.…”

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Analysis of People’s Attitude Toward COVID-19 Vaccine and Its Information Sources in Thailand

Yoda¹,

Suksatit²,

Tokuda³

et al. 2022

Cureus

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IntroductionCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy has become a global problem. Therefore, we aimed to determine the relationship between the information sources on vaccines and the willingness of people to be vaccinated in Thailand. MethodsA sample of 500 respondents was drawn from an Internet research panel, and a questionnaire survey was administered to evaluate respondents' willingness to be vaccinated by sex, age group, educational background, occupation, and presence of chronic diseases, as well as their information sources on COVID-19 vaccines. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were employed to assess the relationship between vaccine hesitancy/refusal and other variables. ResultsOur results demonstrated that 90.2% of the participants were either willing to vaccinate or were already vaccinated. By contrast, 6.0% were hesitant and 3.8% did not want to be vaccinated. Females, people with education less than master's/bachelor's degree or high school, day laborers, housewives, and unemployed were significantly related to vaccine hesitation/refusal. Furthermore, they were less likely than the vaccine willingness group to use information resources from the Ministry of Health, public health centers, or medical associations. ConclusionsAs vaccine hesitancy and refusal ratio were found to be substantially lower than in a previous study for Thailand and other countries, public authorities should poll the public to identify vaccine-hesitant populations and their reasoning and provide appropriate information directly to the general public.

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Analysis of People’s Attitude Toward COVID-19 Vaccine and Its Information Sources in Thailand

Yoda¹,

Suksatit²,

Tokuda³

et al. 2022

Cureus

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“…As of October 2021, many countries were experiencing their fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, parallel with vaccination campaigns against the disease [ 71 , 72 ] and the implementation of COVID-19 vaccine passports or certificates [ 73 , 74 ]. Even if many individuals adhere to these measures, a non-negligible part of the population shows vaccination hesitancy, which may induce a healthcare system overload.…”

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Reasons for Utilizing Telemedicine during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Internet-Based International Study

Benis

Banker

Pinkasovich

et al. 2021

JCM

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The COVID-19 pandemic challenges healthcare services. Concomitantly, this pandemic had a stimulating effect on technological expansions related to telehealth and telemedicine. We sought to elucidate the principal patients’ reasons for using telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic and the propensity to use it thereafter. Our primary objective was to identify the reasons of the survey participants’ disparate attitudes toward the use of telemedicine. We performed an online, multilingual 30-question survey for 14 days during March–April 2021, focusing on the perception and usage of telemedicine and their intent to use it after the pandemic. We analyzed the data to identify the attributes influencing the intent to use telemedicine and built decision trees to highlight the most important related variables. We examined 473 answers: 272 from Israel, 87 from Uruguay, and 114 worldwide. Most participants were women (64.6%), married (63.8%) with 1–2 children (52.9%), and living in urban areas (84.6%). Only a third of the participants intended to continue using telemedicine after the COVID-19 pandemic. Our main findings are that an expected substitution effect, technical proficiency, reduced queueing times, and peer experience are the four major factors in the overall adoption of telemedicine. Specifically, (1) for most participants, the major factor influencing their telemedicine usage is the implicit expectation that such a visit will be a full substitute for an in-person appointment; (2) another factor affecting telemedicine usage by patients is their overall technical proficiency and comfort level in the use of common web-based tools, such as social media, while seeking relevant medical information; (3) time saving as telemedicine can allow for asynchronous communications, thereby reducing physical travel and queuing times at the clinic; and finally (4) some participants have also indicated that telemedicine seems more attractive to them after watching family and friends (peer experience) use it successfully.

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“…Recent discussions have highlighted the necessity of COVID vaccination certificates and revealed various issues in the practice of vaccination certificates [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 ]. Previous studies mostly focus on the necessity and possible issues to consider in COVID passes or vaccination certificates, or the perceptions of vaccine certificates among the general public [ 12 , 13 , 14 ]. As Mithani et al’s [15] preliminary study found out, most online articles on COVID-19 vaccine certificates centred around six themes, i.e., legality, technology, ethics, travel, policy and science.…”

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A comparative analysis of COVID-19 vaccination certificates in 12 countries/regions around the world: Rationalising health policies for international travel and domestic social activities during the pandemic

Wang

Ping

2022

Health Policy

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COVID-19 Vaccine Passport and International Traveling: The Combined Effect of Two Nudges on Americans’ Support for the Pass

Cited by 14 publications

References 41 publications

Analysis of People’s Attitude Toward COVID-19 Vaccine and Its Information Sources in Thailand

Analysis of People’s Attitude Toward COVID-19 Vaccine and Its Information Sources in Thailand

Reasons for Utilizing Telemedicine during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Internet-Based International Study

A comparative analysis of COVID-19 vaccination certificates in 12 countries/regions around the world: Rationalising health policies for international travel and domestic social activities during the pandemic

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