Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza Vaccination
<span>Human vaccination is a complex process that engages social actors, products, infrastructures, and ideology. We explore the role of trust in the healthcare system for immunization with the seasonal influenza vaccine. We use data from a probabilistic national representative survey among...
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
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| description | <span>Human vaccination is a complex process that engages social actors, products, infrastructures, and ideology. We explore the role of trust in the healthcare system for immunization with the seasonal influenza vaccine. We use data from a probabilistic national representative survey among Romanian adults 18 years old or older (n = 2115) fielded in 2019. Binary logistic regression modeling shows that probability of vaccinating against seasonal influenza is higher when the participants trust the overall healthcare system [Odds Ratio = 1.36,p ≤ 0.001], discussed, and gathered information about vaccines [OR = 3.12, p ≤ 0.001], had positive evaluations of the vaccination services [OR = 2.19,p ≤ 0.001], and evaluate today’s vaccine as being safer [OR = 3.05, p ≤ 0.001] or at least as safe [OR = 2.11, p ≤ 0.001] than those from the past. Results suggest that trust in the family physicians is built through personal experiences with them which can be easily adjusted in contrast with overall trust in the healthcare system. Increasing the quality of vaccines and vaccination and emphasizing vaccines’ benefits and safety is not sufficient but just the tip of the iceberg; the entire healthcare system needs a serious facelift which will make it trustworthy.</span> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-162b2e75081b42e581dc9482c562272d2024-03-14T07:28:39ZengBabes-Bolyai University, Cluj-NapocaTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences1842-28452024-02-01207111312910.24193/tras.71E.7815Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza VaccinationMarian Vasile0Gabriel Jderu1Darie Cristea2Associate professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, RomaniaProfessor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, RomaniaAssociate professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania<span>Human vaccination is a complex process that engages social actors, products, infrastructures, and ideology. We explore the role of trust in the healthcare system for immunization with the seasonal influenza vaccine. We use data from a probabilistic national representative survey among Romanian adults 18 years old or older (n = 2115) fielded in 2019. Binary logistic regression modeling shows that probability of vaccinating against seasonal influenza is higher when the participants trust the overall healthcare system [Odds Ratio = 1.36,p ≤ 0.001], discussed, and gathered information about vaccines [OR = 3.12, p ≤ 0.001], had positive evaluations of the vaccination services [OR = 2.19,p ≤ 0.001], and evaluate today’s vaccine as being safer [OR = 3.05, p ≤ 0.001] or at least as safe [OR = 2.11, p ≤ 0.001] than those from the past. Results suggest that trust in the family physicians is built through personal experiences with them which can be easily adjusted in contrast with overall trust in the healthcare system. Increasing the quality of vaccines and vaccination and emphasizing vaccines’ benefits and safety is not sufficient but just the tip of the iceberg; the entire healthcare system needs a serious facelift which will make it trustworthy.</span>https://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/772seasonal-influenza vaccine/vaccinationvaccine hesitancytrust in the healthcare system. |
| spellingShingle | Marian Vasile Gabriel Jderu Darie Cristea Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza Vaccination Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences seasonal-influenza vaccine/vaccination vaccine hesitancy trust in the healthcare system. |
| title | Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza Vaccination |
| title_full | Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza Vaccination |
| title_fullStr | Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza Vaccination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza Vaccination |
| title_short | Trust in the Public Health System and Seasonal-Influenza Vaccination |
| title_sort | trust in the public health system and seasonal influenza vaccination |
| topic | seasonal-influenza vaccine/vaccination vaccine hesitancy trust in the healthcare system. |
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