How to improve vaccine acceptability (evaluation, pharmacovigilance, communication, public health, mandatory vaccination, fears and beliefs)

• Published in: Therapie Vol. 74; no. 1; p. 131
• Main Authors: Dutilleul, Alain, Morel, Jacques, Schilte, Clémentine, Launay, Odile
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: France 01.02.2019
• Subjects: Communication; France; Health Education - trends; Humans; Immunization Programs - trends; Mandatory Programs; Motivation; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Pharmacovigilance; Public Health; Schools; Vaccination - trends; Vaccination Coverage; Vaccines; France; Motivational interviewing; Immunization; Vaccine; Hesitancy; Education; Information systems
• ISSN: 0040-5957
• DOI: 10.1016/j.therap.2018.12.005

A flagship recommendation of the citizen's steering committee on immunization, the mandatory immunization for infants extended to 11 vaccines, introduced in January 2018, is part of a set of recommendations that must be considered as a whole, each component being indispensable to the achievement of objectives: restore confidence in vaccination and increase immunization coverage. Roundtable # 6 participants identified a decade of concrete initiatives that could address, at least in part, the committee's recommendations, including: developing information systems and data generation; simplify the vaccination journey and increase vaccination opportunities; developing training of health professionals; learning vaccines at school; using motivational interviewing in educational intervention; undertaking local initiatives; improving supply and communicate on the value of vaccines. To carry out these actions, it has been proposed that a joint ministerial task-force bringing together the different stakeholders at the national level should be set up to promote their implementation and follow-up, and at regional level, the establishment of an Agences régionales de santé awareness plan making vaccination a priority.