Popular attitudes toward vaccination in the “post”-COVID-19 period
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
The goal of this article Collection is to bring together manuscripts that investigate popular attitudes toward vaccination in the post-COVID-19 pandemic period. During the pandemic, there was a great deal of misinformation and conspiracy theories circulating about vaccines, at times promoted by political leaders and parties. As a consequence, confidence in vaccines was undermined, and a large number of people developed negative views toward not only COVID-19 vaccines, but also other vaccines. Concurrently, trust in public health institutions that were promoting vaccination declined. Despite the World Health Organization declaring an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency in May of 2023, these negative views toward vaccines may have endured.
The Collection seeks to investigate people’s attitudes toward vaccines and vaccination policy in the post-COVID-19 context. Of particular interest are studies exploring attitudes toward vaccines, such as annual flu vaccine and children’s vaccines; as well as attitudes toward vaccination policies, such as mandatory vaccination. The Collection has a global scope and seeks to study vaccination attitudes in a variety of geographical and political contexts. Any empirical method of inquiry is welcome. Besides general population studies, we are particularly interested in studies examining attitudes toward vaccination among various population groups, such as: healthcare workers, students, older adults, residents of rural areas, and people with disabilities, among others.
This Collection supports research connected to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 that seeks to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.” As such, the findings will be relevant to public health officials at all levels as they seek to rebuild people’s trust in vaccines and the public health institutions that were often undermined during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Collection will be interdisciplinary and seek contributors from disciplines not limited to:
- Communication
- Health policy
- Political science
- Psychology
- Social policy
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being.
Editors
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Julia Partheymüller
University of Vienna, Austria
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Filip Viskupič
South Dakota State University, USA
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David L. Wiltse
South Dakota State University, USA
The Collection will publish original research Articles, Reviews and Comments (full details on content types can be found here). Papers will be published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications as soon as they are accepted and then collected together and promoted on the Collection homepage. All Guest Edited Collections are associated with a call for papers and are managed by one or more of our Editorial Board Members and the journal's Editors.
This Collection welcomes submissions from all authors – and not by invitation only – on the condition that the manuscripts fall within the scope of the Collection and of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications more generally. See our editorial process page for more details.
All submissions are subject to the same peer review process and editorial standards as regular Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Articles, including the journal’s policy on competing interests. The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions, which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests. See our journal policies and submission guidelines for more details.
This Collection is not supported by sponsorship.
