Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal Through a Rights-Based Framework

vaccines. Applying Colgrove and Samuel's analysis to the childhood vaccination debate can help us better understand the sources of vaccine resistance and how to better design public health responses. Until the advent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine mandates, opposition to school-based vaccination requirements was perhaps the foremost expression of vaccine resistance in modern life. Usually, the opposition to pediatric vaccines is presented as parental concerns regarding childhood development. In some regards, medical questions are a very present but ever-evolving concern for vaccine-hesitant parents.2 The 1970s and 1980s saw a rise of antivaccination parental advocacy in the United States and the United Kingdom, spurred by a potential link between pertussis vacci

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Applying the analysis of Colgrove and Samuel to the childhood vaccination debate can provide insights into the sources of vaccine resistance and inform the development of effective public health responses. Prior to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, opposition to school-based vaccination requirements was the primary form of vaccine resistance. Parental concerns about childhood development and evolving medical questions contribute to vaccine hesitancy.