Vaccination and the Prevention of Communicable Diseases in Healthcare Settings: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

With the number of Covid cases and Covid-related deaths continuing unabated, achieving a high vaccination coverage is essential to ensure the safety of staff and patients and resume normal hospital care admissions and operations. This article questions current strategies around vaccination in healthcare settings and proposes ways to understand and address vaccination hesitancy among staff. It offers insights on how to develop a multifaceted vaccination strategy, which takes into consideration vaccination hesitancy among healthcare professionals and community-specific factors. Drawing from social psychological theories, we suggest that the root of vaccination hesitancy lies in conflicting representations or cognitive polyphasia. In addition, we argue that current communication strategies mostly rely on rational arguments and ignores the importance of a more emotion-based approach.

Variety and variation in lived worlds: Defining and exploring a new marketing research agenda based on an ethnography of complementary and alternative medicine consumption

“…It has been reported present in the social representations of actors engaged in the development of agroecological alternatives (Abessolo, 2015; Jarousse et al, 2021; Pineau, 2019), or alternative energies (Upham and Johansen, 2020). It appears in the social representations of pro- and anti-vaccine groups during the COVID-19 pandemic (de Rosa and Mannarini, 2020; Voyer and Provencher, 2021), and in social representations, in Africa, of the relationship between conventional (“Western”) and traditional medicine (Sitto and Lubinga, 2020). Each time, in each case, we see different modes of thought coexisting adaptively, being used functionally, depending on the circumstances (Jovchelovitch and Priego-Hernandez, 2015; Provencher, 2011).…”

Variété et variations des mondes vécus : définition et exploration d’un nouveau programme de recherche en marketing, à partir d’une ethnographie de la consommation de médecines alternatives et complémentaires

“…Elle a été rapportée présente dans les représentations sociales d'acteurs engagés dans le développement d'alternatives agroécologiques (Abessolo, 2015 ;Jarousse et al, 2021 ;Pineau, 2019), ou d'énergies alternatives (Upham et Johansen, 2020). Elle apparaît dans les représentations sociales des groupes pro-et anti-vaccins, durant la pandémie de Covid-19 (de Rosa et Mannarini, 2020 ;Voyer et Provencher, 2021), et dans les représentations sociales, en Afrique, des rapports entre médecine conventionnelle (« occidentale ») et médecine traditionnelle (Sitto et Lubinga, 2020). A chaque fois, en chaque cas, on voit différents modes de pensée coexister de manière adaptative, être utilisés de manière fonctionnelle, selon les circonstances (Provencher, 2011 ;Jovchelovitch et Priego-Hernandez, 2015).…”

Communicable Disease Preventive Behavior among Adolescents

“…Raise awareness about the importance of vaccinations in preventing communicable diseases and address any concerns or misconceptions they may have. (Voyer, and Provencher, 2021;Chevalier-Cottin, et al,2020) Encourage healthy behaviors: Promote healthy behaviors among teenagers, such as regular handwashing, practicing safe sex, and adopting a balanced diet. Provide information on the benefits of these behaviors in preventing the transmission of communicable diseases.…”