TY - JOUR
T1 - H1N1 vaccination and health beliefs in a rural community in the Southeastern United States
T2 - lessons learned
AU - Hausman, Bernice L.
AU - Lawrence, Heidi Y.
AU - Marmagas, Susan West
AU - Fortenberry, Lauren
AU - Dannenberg, Clare J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a grant from the Virginia Department of Health, under grant number 11209603. The authors wish to thank John Dreyzehner, former director of the Cumberland Plateau Health District, as well as members of that office and of the Russell County school district who facilitated the study. Other researchers on the project include Libby Anthony, Stacy Boyer, and François Elvinger. Amy Reed also helped out in the early stages of the project. We are indebted to the families who responded to the survey and especially to those who opened their homes to the interviewers.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/3/14
Y1 - 2020/3/14
N2 - This article discusses a study of flu vaccine uptake and hesitancy in a rural community during the 2009–2010 H1N1 pandemic flu season. In it, we explore study participants’ understanding of the relationship between vaccines, illness, and immunity, as well as parent intentionality in accepting or forgoing flu vaccines for their children. Our research offers novel conclusions about how people respond to the development and implementation of vaccines for newly emerging flu strains and establishes a warrant for qualitative research on vaccination practices that attends to participants’ views about vaccines in the context of their overall ideas about health. Our findings suggest that more accurate understandings of people’s beliefs and experiences of vaccination can be developed through qualitative research that values vernacular discourse. Our findings also suggest that influenza vaccination provides a fruitful context in which to study vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Finally, our study demonstrates that vaccine concerns are more demographically widespread than is presumed by current research.
AB - This article discusses a study of flu vaccine uptake and hesitancy in a rural community during the 2009–2010 H1N1 pandemic flu season. In it, we explore study participants’ understanding of the relationship between vaccines, illness, and immunity, as well as parent intentionality in accepting or forgoing flu vaccines for their children. Our research offers novel conclusions about how people respond to the development and implementation of vaccines for newly emerging flu strains and establishes a warrant for qualitative research on vaccination practices that attends to participants’ views about vaccines in the context of their overall ideas about health. Our findings suggest that more accurate understandings of people’s beliefs and experiences of vaccination can be developed through qualitative research that values vernacular discourse. Our findings also suggest that influenza vaccination provides a fruitful context in which to study vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Finally, our study demonstrates that vaccine concerns are more demographically widespread than is presumed by current research.
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U2 - 10.1080/09581596.2018.1546825
DO - 10.1080/09581596.2018.1546825
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059015475
SN - 0958-1596
VL - 30
SP - 245
EP - 251
JO - Critical Public Health
JF - Critical Public Health
IS - 2
ER -
