Influenza Vaccination Paper

Researcher have indicated that the uptake rates of annual influenza uptake is effected by several factors, such as locational setting of vaccination availability (Lu 2014), the cost of administering vaccine (Wada 2013) and the perceived vulnerability for the age groups (Wu 2013). Many of these factors also can be perceived as barriers that impact the vaccine uptake rates. Although these barriers here contribute to low annual uptake of influenza vaccine in adults, public health officials can minimize the impact of barriers to increase the levels of vaccine uptake in several ways. Majority of adults receive influenza vaccines in a medical setting (38.4%), but a large remaining portion of adults receive vaccines in non-medical settings because
Individuals with limited income are unable to afford the cost of vaccines (Wada 2013). By providing on-site (Rebmann 2016), free vaccines or subsidizing vaccinations, there has been strong association with influenza vaccination uptakes in adults that are unwilling to or unable to pay for the cost of vaccines (Yeung 2016). Free vaccine coverage helps address this issue as with other common changeable factors, including having medical professionals continuing to provide advice and recommend influenza vaccination to their older patients (Yeung 2016, Lu 2014). Older patients are more willing to trust their medical providers, so vaccine acceptance is higher in medical settings for those group. Many young adults on the other hand, associate vaccines with adverse concerns after administration and they also perceive their chances of contracting influenza to be low, so their intentions to get vaccinated also remain low (Yeung 2016). Implementing and Providing educational programs that targeting specific groups of individuals have also been effective at providing necessary knowledge for increase vaccine uptake (Rebmann 2016). Education provided to their medical providers and general public would encourage them to seek vaccination (Lu