G. Orazova, Aidos K. Bolatov, Yelena Gudym, Zhanar Zhamiyeva
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Voluntary Vaccination Against COVID-19 in Kazakhstan: Opinion of the population
The aim of the study: to assess the attitude of the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan to voluntary vaccination against COVID-19.Methods. The study is based on the results of a sociological survey conducted by the authors from March to May 2021. The survey was conducted among residents who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The total number of respondents is 252, of which 60.7% (n = 153) are women and 39.4% (n = 99) are men. The average age of the respondents was 31.7 ± 12.5.Results. In total 84.5% of respondents did not agree to receive the vaccine, and 8.3% found it difficult to answer. According to our data, 38% of respondents believe that the effectiveness of vaccination is not fully proven, and 31% are sure that vaccines against COVID-19 are harmful to human health. 17% of the respondents noted that information about the vaccine was not available, most of which were from the rural population.Conclusions. Advocacy for COVID-19 vaccination is not available to the public, especially in rural areas. We hypothesize that the main reason for the rejection of voluntary vaccination is that the majority of the population believes that the effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19 is incompletely proven and they can be harmful to health. Requires a wide range of active public awareness activities by health organizations and various public organizations to increase public confidence in COVID-19 vaccine prevention
期刊介绍:
The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development is a multi and interdisciplinary platform that provides space for public health experts in academics, policy and programs to share empirical evidence to contribute to health development agenda.
We publish original research articles, reviews, brief communications and commentaries on public health issues, to inform current research, policy and practice in all areas of common interest to the scholars in the field of public health, social sciences and humanities, health practitioners and policy makers. The journal publishes material relevant to any aspect of public health from a wide range of fields: epidemiology, environmental health, health economics, reproductive health, behavioral sciences, nutrition, psychiatry, social pharmacy, medical anthropology, medical sociology, clinical psychology and wide arrays of social sciences and humanities.
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1) Peer-reviewed original research articles and critical or analytical reviews in any area of social public health. These papers may be up to 3,500 words excluding abstract, tables, and references. Papers below this limit are preferred.
2) Peer-reviewed short reports of research findings on topical issues or published articles of between 2000 and 4000 words.
3) Brief communications, and commentaries debating on particular areas of focus, and published alongside, selected articles.
4) Special Issues bringing together collections of papers on a particular theme, and usually guest edited.
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