Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: the role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F25%3A10502685" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/25:10502685 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.NgzQZqTMJ" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=.NgzQZqTMJ</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/euso_a_00029" target="_blank" >10.1162/euso_a_00029</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Parental decision-making regarding vaccination: the role of preschool enrolment sanctions, family policies and childcare expectation
Original language description
The Czech Republic exemplifies a country with a mandatory childhood vaccination system. A child who has not completed compulsory vaccinations cannot be admitted to preschool until age 5. This paper discusses this measure's impact on parental decision-making processes, interactions with healthcare professionals, and activities and discourses employed by organisations that unite vaccine-hesitant parents. The analysis draws on data from 30 in-depth interviews with vaccine-hesitant parents (all of whom intentionally postponed or refused at least one compulsory vaccination), 19 in-depth interviews with healthcare professionals and 60 hours of observation at three paediatrician surgeries during vaccination consultations. The paper departs from the notion of vaccine hesitancy as a state of indecisiveness or a particular behavioural phenomenon and leans towards specific contexts within which decisions are made. It analyses specific effects of indirect sanctions that are part of mandatory vaccination policies on vaccine-hesitant parents' interactions with healthcare professionals, strategies, public discourses and decision-making processes regarding vaccination. The paper discusses the measures' impact in the context of family policies in the Czech Republic (availability of preschool facilities, gender division of labour and social expectations regarding the length of paternal leave).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Societies
ISSN
1461-6696
e-ISSN
1469-8307
Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
915-935
UT code for WoS article
001616335100002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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