Do Health Care Professionals Trust Parents? A Team Ethnography of Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy from Seven European Countries

Dino Numerato, Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Mario Cardano, Alice Scavarda, Luigi Gariglio, Alistair Anderson, Petra Auvinen, Piet Bracke, Ana Patrícia Hilário, Pru Hobson-West, Aapo Kuusipalo, Esther Lermytte, Joana Mendonça, Paulina Polak, Tadeusz Józef Rudek, Maria Świątkiewicz-Mośny, Pia Vuolanto, Aleksandra Wagner

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Published online on January 07, 2026

Abstract

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Social-scientific scholarship on vaccination has often stressed the importance of trust. Vaccine hesitancy has commonly been viewed as determined by the degree of trust that parents have in expert knowledge, health care authorities, and health care ...