This is an introduction to the special issue "Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal." This special issue of Health Psychology examines various aspects of vaccine hesitancy using a health psychology lens. The timing of this issue, following a call for papers issued in the summer of 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, is reflected in the focus on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the papers included here. This is important, as the field of vaccine hesitancy research has expanded greatly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of March 2, 2023, a search of PubMed for "vaccine hesitancy" yielded 5,635 papers, dating back to 1968. A similar search for "COVID vaccine hesitancy" yielded 3,851 papers, starting in 2020. This highlights the need for new and novel theory-based interventions that can be broadly applicable to hesitancy to other routine vaccinations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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关于疫苗犹豫和拒绝的特刊简介。

这是对“疫苗犹豫与拒绝”特刊的介绍。本期《健康心理学》特刊从健康心理学的角度探讨了疫苗犹豫的各个方面。继 2021 年夏季 COVID-19 大流行期间征集论文之后，本期的时间安排反映在此处包含的论文中对 COVID-19 疫苗犹豫不决的关注上。这一点很重要，因为针对 COVID-19 大流行，疫苗犹豫研究领域已经大大扩展。截至 2023 年 3 月 2 日，在 PubMed 中搜索“疫苗犹豫”产生了 5,635 篇论文，可追溯到 1968 年。从 2020 年开始，对“COVID 疫苗犹豫”的类似搜索产生了 3,851 篇论文。这凸显了对新的和新颖的研究的需求。基于理论的干预措施可广泛适用于对其他常规疫苗接种的犹豫。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。