Activities for the unvaccinated
Activities to encourage vaccination have been found to have the potential to increase the number of adolescents who receive the recommended vaccines through several different approaches. Approaches include providing health education, offering gifts, and passing legislation. However, we will present a review done from more research to understand which approaches are most effective when focusing on low and middle income countries.
The authors of this review have reviewed 16 relevant studies.
They found that when adolescents and their parents were provided with information and education about vaccination, more adolescents received the HPV vaccine. (Based on high certainty evidence) It is also possible that more adolescents received the HPV vaccine when gift certificates were offered.
However, it was not clear whether providing health education, cash, and gift packages to adolescents and their parents would result in more adolescents getting the hepatitis B vaccine.
And if a law were enacted that made vaccination a requirement for adolescents to attend school, a significantly larger number of adolescents might get the hepatitis B vaccine.We found that if health care providers opened electronic health records and encouraged adolescents to be vaccinated, it would have little effect on the number of adolescents who received tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, meningococcal, HPV, and influenza vaccines.
However, more adolescents may be vaccinated against HPV when health care workers receive education with performance feedback.
Also, more adolescents are likely to get the HPV vaccine when health care providers are given education, individualized feedback, frequent visits, and incentives.
More adolescents are likely to get the HPV vaccine when health care providers and parents are targeted in several ways, including education, phone calls, and radio messages.
In addition.
In one study in Tanzania, which targeted schools, girls in classes that were not composed of the same age group were provided information about vaccination. The boys were compared to girls who were the same age, but not in the same class, and therefore were given information on immunization.
The study showed that a class-based approach may result in a small increase in the number of girls who receive the HPV vaccine.
Abdullahi LH, Kagina BM, Ndze VN, Hussey GD, Wiysonge CS. Improving vaccination uptake among adolescents. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2020, Issue 1, Art. No.: CD011895, DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011895.pub2.
Summary
Given the high rates of non-vaccination among adolescents in the target regions (United States, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Australia, and Sweden), what interventions can increase vaccination rates? The results are a summary of an experiment that was conducted. The results concluded that interventions such as laws > incentives > education would increase the rate of vaccination, and that incentives for healthcare workers would increase the rate of vaccination.
What would you do if you were told that you would receive 10,000 yen per vaccination? What would you do if you were told that you would receive 10,000 yen for each vaccination, or that you would be punished if you didn't get vaccinated?
There are many things that are said about vaccination, such as the reduction of morbidity due to immunity, side effects of vaccination, and conspiracy theories, but it is up to you to decide what you want to do. I thought I would go and get vaccinated if I were to be penalized by law.
