Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to a Special Issue entitled Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance in the journal Vaccines, which is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal on public health. More information about the journal can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines.

Vaccination remains one of the most effective public health interventions, dramatically reducing the spread of infectious diseases, alleviating strain on healthcare systems worldwide, and reducing morbidity and mortality from preventable causes. However, the global impact of vaccination can be negated by vaccine hesitancy, influenced by cultural, social, economic, and psychological factors that reduce vaccination rates. Vaccine hesitancy therefore presents a unique threat to public health, as decreased acceptance rates can lead to the resurgence of preventable diseases, undermine efforts to achieve herd immunity, and increase morbidity and mortality. This special edition will focus on the critical topics of vaccine hesitancy and vaccination acceptance rates, highlighting research and other works that address the causes, trends, and potential solutions to these challenges.

We invite original articles and other reports that explore the topics of vaccine hesitancy and vaccination acceptance rates. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, (i) factors and other determinants, in patients or healthcare providers, that influence vaccine hesitancy and acceptance rates across populations, (ii) addressing and/or overcoming vaccine hesitancy and other barriers to vaccination, (iii) development, implementation, and/or analysis of health education, communication, or other best practices for reducing vaccine hesitancy or improving vaccination rates in different populations, and (iv) policy measures and public health interventions. In this Special Issue, communications, reports, commentaries, perspectives, reviews, and original research articles are welcomed.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Karl Hess
Dr. Jeff Goad
Dr. Laressa Bethishou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Vaccines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• vaccine hesitancy
• vaccine acceptance
• barriers to vaccination
• vaccination strategies