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18 - Can Behavioural Insights Explain Ethnic Minority Vaccination Gaps?

from Part II - Health Behaviours and Policies during Covid-19

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By
Daniele Sudsataya ,
Miqdad Asaria ,
Joan Costa-Font  and
Faical Achaiki
Edited by
Joan Costa-Font  and
Matteo M. Galizzi
Joan Costa-Font
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Matteo M. Galizzi
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Summary

This chapter attempts to provide an assessment of the state of the art, explaining the presence of an ethnic minority vector driving vaccine hesitancy, as well as a list of potential behavioural policy interventions to curb such inequality. We specifically focus on the behavioural insights that can explain the uneven access to vaccine across ethnic groups. This includes incentives and constraints that have been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this chapter we discuss what kind of incentives works and when do certain incentives backfire. We then provide a series of policy recommendations to successfully create and implement vaccine roll-out strategies that members of ethnic minority groups will be receptive to.

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minority ethnic groupsCOVID-19 vaccines
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Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
Insights from Responses to COVID-19
 , pp. 335 - 347
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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