Webinar: Children and Young People’s attitudes and experiences of vaccinations – turning evidence into practice

Vaccine uptake in the UK is dropping, and we are failing to meet the WHO’s 95% coverage target. To help address this, we must understand people’s attitudes and experiences of vaccines, so we can grasp their concerns and better support them. Children’s attitudes are important too, because they must feel empowered to make health decisions.

RSPH research with Children and Young People (CYP) shows that they trust vaccines and think they are important to their health. However, trust varies by ethnicity, with results showing that 85% of white CYP trust vaccines, in comparison to 71% of Asian and 74% of black CYP.

Knowledge varies around which vaccines they think are available to them and they do not necessarily know which vaccines they can have. Whilst 61% of CYP understood how vaccines worked, they reported concerns about side effects (63%), safety (57%), whether they will hurt (55%) and the costs of accessing vaccines (16%).

These findings have practical implications for practitioners working with CYP and delivering vaccines. In this webinar, we will explore:

• The impact of inequalities on access to vaccines and information about vaccinations.
• What challenges the public health workforce face in delivering vaccines.
• How the workforce – and others involved in vaccine delivery -  can be supported to develop and deliver vaccines programmes

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