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Indirect Effects of COVID-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on Vaccine Acceptance

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dc.contributor.authorBussolo, Maurizio
dc.contributor.authorTorre, Iván
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-05T20:06:00Z
dc.date.available2022-07-05T20:06:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-06
dc.description.abstractThe information set from which individuals make their decision on vaccination includes signals from trusted agents, such as governments, community leaders, and the media. By implementing restrictions, or by relaxing them, governments can provide a signal about the underlying risk of the pandemic and indirectly affect vaccination take-up. Rather than focusing on measures specifically designed to increase vaccine acceptance, this paper studies how governments’ nonpharmaceutical policy responses to the pandemic can modify the degree of preventive health behavior, including vaccination. To do so, the paper uses repeated waves of a global survey on COVID-19 beliefs, behaviors, and norms covering 67 countries from August 2020 to February 2021. Controlling for the usual determinants, the analysis explores how individuals’ willingness to get vaccinated is affected by changes in government restriction measures (as measured by the Oxford Stringency Index). This relationship is mediated by individual characteristics, social norms (social pressure to conform with what most people do), and trust in government institutions. The results point to a complex picture as the implementation of restrictions is associated with increased acceptance in some contexts and decreased acceptance in others. The stringency of government restrictions has significant positive correlations with vaccine acceptance in contexts of weak social norms of vaccine acceptance and lower trust in government. In countries or communities where social norms are tighter and trust in government health authorities is high, vaccine acceptance is high but less sensitive to changes in policies. These results suggest that the indirect effect of government policy stringency is stronger among individuals who report lower trust and weaker social norms of vaccine acceptance.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099718106242240071/IDU0d895ede303c2b049020a4700327998778544
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10106
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37628
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC : World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;10106
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectPANDEMIC
dc.subjectVACCINE HESITANCY
dc.subjectVACCINE ACCEPTANCE
dc.subjectNON-PHARMACETUTICAL INTERVENTIONS
dc.subjectTRUST
dc.subjectNORMS
dc.subjectSTATISTICS
dc.titleIndirect Effects of COVID-19 Nonpharmaceutical Interventions on Vaccine Acceptanceen
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okr.date.disclosure2022-06-24
okr.date.lastmodified2022-06-24T00:00:00Zen
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-10106
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okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Immunizations
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Pharmaceuticals & Pharmacoeconomics
okr.unitSouth Asia Region and Europe and Central Asia Region
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