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This comprehensive Research Handbook brings together insights from leading scholars, practitioners and community advocates internationally to examine the societal dimensions of vaccination. It focuses on two key areas: what influences vaccine uptake and what has and can be done to improve vaccination programmes.

Combining standpoints from across medical anthropology, psychology, sociology, political science, history and media studies - including perspectives from low and middle-income countries - leading experts demonstrate how social science can help to make immunisation programmes more effective, ethical and sustainable. Employing illustrative case studies, contributors explore challenges such as vaccine hesitancy, refusal and opposition movements. Chapters further analyse the tailoring of immunisation programmes, engagement with communities, shared decision-making and the ethical dimensions of vaccine mandates. The Research Handbook concludes by considering the emerging discipline of vaccination social science and new technologies which may revolutionise how vaccines are delivered.

The Research Handbook on Immunisation and Society will be invaluable to scholars and students in public health, medicine and the social sciences. Practitioners and policymakers will also benefit from its insights into improving vaccine uptake and the impact of social influence on vaccination-related behaviours.