Jean-Pierre Michel, Honorary professor of Medicine, Medical University of Geneva, Switzerland, + 41 79 77 83 742 ,
J Nutr Health Aging. 2021;25(5):698-701. doi: 10.1007/s12603-021-1627-1.
Importance and Objective: The Covid pandemic is a timely opportunity to try to broaden our understanding of the links between education and health literacy and explore the vaccine-decision process with a view to identifying interventions that will positively influence vaccine uptake.
Health and vaccine literacy encompass people's knowledge, motivation, and competence to access, understand, appraise and apply health information in order to make judgements and take decisions in everyday life concerning health care, disease prevention and health promotion.
Appropriate vaccine communication, which depends greatly on personal and contextual determinants, as well as on societal and environmental circumstances, is essential to reassure people about vaccine efficacy, safety, and possible side effects. However, vaccine confidence is not solely a question of trust in the vaccine's efficacy, safety. and individual protective benefit of vaccination. It also encompasses the mechanism(s) of vaccine activity, immunization schedules, organization and trust in the healthcare system that promotes and delivers the vaccines, and at what costs. When healthcare professionals as science brokers of vaccine knowledge attempt to increase vaccine knowledge and confidence, they must adjust their communication to the educational or health literacy level of their intended audience. Even if their messages are apparently clear and simple, they absolutely need to verify that they are properly understood.
Specific vaccine communication training appears essential to increase vaccine communication skills among healthcare providers. Moreover, further randomized controlled studies are warranted to improve vaccine empowerment among different populations, from a variety of educational backgrounds.
重要性和目的：新冠疫情是一个及时的机会，可以尝试拓宽我们对教育和健康素养之间联系的理解，并探索疫苗决策过程，以确定将积极影响疫苗接种率的干预措施。
健康和疫苗素养包括人们获取、理解、评估和应用健康信息的知识、动机和能力，以便在日常生活中就医疗保健、疾病预防和健康促进做出判断和决策。
适当的疫苗沟通在很大程度上取决于个人和环境决定因素，以及社会和环境情况，对于让人们对疫苗的疗效、安全性和可能的副作用放心至关重要。然而，疫苗信心不仅仅是对疫苗疗效、安全性和个体保护受益的信任问题。它还包括疫苗活动的机制、免疫计划、促进和提供疫苗的医疗保健系统的组织和信任，以及成本。当医疗保健专业人员作为疫苗知识的科学经纪人试图增加疫苗知识和信心时，他们必须根据目标受众的教育或健康素养水平调整他们的沟通。即使他们的信息显然清晰简单，他们也绝对需要核实信息是否被正确理解。
特定的疫苗沟通培训似乎对于提高医疗保健提供者的疫苗沟通技巧至关重要。此外，还需要进一步进行随机对照研究，以提高不同人群、不同教育背景的人群的疫苗赋权。
