Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19.
Keila Cristina Oliveira Dos SantosMaria de Fátima Junqueira-MarinhoAdriana Teixeira ReisKarla Gonçalves CamachoMarcio Fernandes NehabDimitri Marques AbramovZina Maria Almeida de AzevedoLivia Almeida de MenezesMargarida Dos Santos SalúCarlos Eduardo da Silva FigueiredoMaria Elisabeth Lopes MoreiraZilton Farias Meira de VasconcelosFlavia Amendola Anisio de CarvalhoLivia de Rezende de MelloRoberta Fernandes CorreiaSaint Clair Dos Santos Gomes-JúniorDaniella Campelo Batalha Cox MoorePublished in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2023)
Social knowledge, presented by the representations apprehended in this study, demonstrates difficulty in discerning the reliability of information and a social imagination full of doubts and uncertainties. Understanding the internal dynamics of these groups, with their representations of the world, is important to propose policies and actions that echo and cause changes in the understanding of the role of immunization. It is essential to shed light on the sociological imagination so that gaps filled with false information can be dismantled and confronted with scientific knowledge accessible to the population.