近日，山东大学公共治理研究院冷安丽博士后作为第一作者在医学学术期刊《Vaccine》上发表文章《Individual preferences for COVID-19 vaccination in China》（点击文章题目查看原文内容）。

【Abstract】

Background

Vaccinations are an effective choice to stop disease outbreaks, including COVID-19. There is little research on individuals' COVID-19 vaccination decision-making.

Objective

We aimed to determine individual preferences for COVID-19 vaccinations in China, and to assess the factors influencing vaccination decision-making to facilitate vaccination coverage.

Methods

A D-efficient discrete choice experiment was conducted across six Chinese provinces selected by the stratified random sampling method. Vaccine choice sets were constructed using seven attributes: vaccine effectiveness, side-effects, accessibility, number of doses, vaccination sites, duration of vaccine protection, and proportion of acquaintances vaccinated. Conditional logit and latent class models were used to identify preferences.

Results

Although all seven attributes were proved to significantly influence respondents’ vaccination decision, vaccine effectiveness, side-effects and proportion of 

acquaintances vaccinated were the most important. We also found a higher probability of vaccinating when the vaccine was more effective; risks of serious side effects were small; vaccinations were free and voluntary; the fewer the number of doses; the longer the protection duration; and the higher the proportion of acquaintances vaccinated. Higher local vaccine coverage created altruistic herd incentives to vaccinate rather than free-rider problems. The predicted vaccination uptake of the optimal vaccination scenario in our study was 84.77%. Preference heterogeneity was substantial. Individuals who were older, had a lower education level, lower income, higher trust in the vaccine and higher perceived risk of infection, displayed a higher probability to vaccinate.

Conclusions

Preference heterogeneity among individuals should lead health authorities to address the diversity of expectations about COVID-19 vaccinations. To maximize COVID-19 vaccine uptake, health authorities should promote vaccine effectiveness; pro-actively communicate the absence or presence of vaccine side effects; and ensure rapid and wide media communication about local vaccine coverage.

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【作者简介】
   冷安丽，山东大学政治学与公共管理学院博士后，主要研究方向为卫生经济学评价，行为与实验经济学。先后主持国家自然科学基金项目、国家自然科学基金委员会应用研究项目、挪威科研基金委员会资助项目的研究。在《Vaccine》《BMC Cancer》《Archives of Psychiatric Nursing》

《BMC Palliative Care》《社会学评论》《中国公共卫生》等发表SCI、CSSCI、CSCD 期刊论文数篇。

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