Based on the concerns about vaccine hesitancy and its impact on vaccine uptake rates and the performance of national immunization programmes, the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy [1], carried out a review, and proposed a set of recommendations directed to the public health community, to WHO and its partners, and to the World Health Or...

QUALIFLEX (QUALItative FLEXible multiple criteria method) is a very useful outranking method to deal simultaneously with the cardinal and ordinal information in decision making process. The purpose of this paper is to develop a hesitant fuzzy QUALIFLEX with a signed distance-based comparison method for handling multi-criteria decision-making problems in which both the assessments of alternative...

In this month’s issue of Pediatrics, Henrikson et al report a trial of the impact of communication training for physicians on the vaccine hesitancy of parents. The authors found that a physician-targeted communication intervention did not reduce vaccine hesitancy in mothers nor improve physician confidence compared with standard care. However, the study requires careful interpretation and shoul...

With significant impact on the personalized product configuration, Interactive Genetic Algorithm is introduced to respond to customer requirement. For the user could conveniently design their favorite product and interact with the system by a graphical interface, the car console conceptual design system is established. And IGA based on hesitancy degree is proposed in this paper to reduce user’s...

The theory of intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS) is well suitable to deal with vagueness and hesitancy. In this study, we propose a new fuzzy TOPSIS decision making model using entropy weight for dealing with multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems under intuitionistic fuzzy environment. This model allows measuring the degree of satisfiability and the degree of non-satisfiability, respect...

Content-based information retrieval (IR) involves low-level feature extraction and utilize similarity search methods applied either in the feature space or in derived higher-level semantic spaces. These methods assume that similarity is measured by accounting only the degree in which two entities are related, ignoring the hesitancy introduced by the degree in which they are unrelated. Aiming at...

Vaccine hesitancy has become the focus of growing attention and concern globally despite overwhelming evidence of the value of vaccines in preventing disease and saving the lives of millions of individuals every year. Measuring vaccine hesitancy and its determinants worldwide is important in order to understand the scope of the problem and for the development of evidence-based targeted strategi...

Despite a wide array of safe and effective vaccines in use globally, with major impacts on health worldwide, the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization has been repeatedly confronted with reports of hesitancy towards accepting specific vaccines or vaccination programmes. This paper summarizes the rationale for a SAGE review of the issue of vaccine hesitancy, its impact a...

Mary S. Hayney, PharmD,MPH, BCPS, Professor of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison (mary. [email protected]) and John D. Grabenstein, PhD, Executive Director, Global Health & Medical Affairs, Merck Vaccines ([email protected]). The reluctance of some to be vaccinated, termed “vaccine hesitancy,” has contributed to decreasing immunization coverage in some commun...