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Relevance of Vaccine Literacy Assessment Tools

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The systematic review by Zhang et al. recently published on IJPH (1) provides an important update on the status of vaccine literacy (VL) and related measurement tools. While the Authors… Click to show full abstract

The systematic review by Zhang et al. recently published on IJPH (1) provides an important update on the status of vaccine literacy (VL) and related measurement tools. While the Authors highlight the role of VL in overcoming vaccine hesitancy and increasing immunization rates, they also conclude that the tools used in the selected studies were “ limited ” in relation to the complexity of the in fl uencing factors, as they were not designed to speci fi cally assess VL skills, but were adapted from those used to measure health literacy (HL) in chronic patients (2).

Keywords: assessment tools; literacy; vaccine literacy; literacy assessment; relevance vaccine

Journal Title: International Journal of Public Health
Year Published: 2023

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