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Editors' Introduction: Understanding and Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy
Gary L Kreps1, Xuewei Chen2, Ming Li3
1Center for Health & Risk Communication, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.
Vaccines
|June 27, 2025
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The goal of this Special Issue, "Understanding and Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy", is to examine the current state of knowledge concerning the major causes and influences of vaccine hesitancy, as well as to suggest evidence-based solutions for the growing problem of vaccine hesitancy in modern society [...].
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