Is Vaccine Uptake Related to Health Literacy? A Representative Survey in the Multilingual Region of South Tyrol, Italy
Building trust and targeting individuals with lower educational attainment are key strategies for improving vaccination rates across language groups. Although health literacy plays a secondary role, efforts to enhance it, especially among the German-speaking population, are still warranted. Younger individuals with missing health literacy scores, often with a migration background and low trust in healthcare, should be prioritised in vaccination and health literacy campaigns.
Authors
- Dietmar Ausserhofer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0319-4766)
- Giuliano Piccoliori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1974-4184)
- Adolf Engl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2720-001X)
- Christian Josef Wiedermann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4639-8195)
- Timon Gärtner
- Verena Barbieri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5934-9472)
- Stefano Lombardo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8034-8480)
Institutions
- Ospedale di Bolzano (IT)
- Provincia autonoma di Bolzano - Alto Adige
Publication Details
- Journal
- Vaccines
- Published
- 2025-05-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines13060575
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.17