Vaccine hesitancy resources and practice tools

This one-hour module provides guidance to counter the concerns of vaccine-hesitant parents and a practical approach to improved decision-making.

This paper provides a background on vaccine hesitancy and addresses parental concerns about vaccination.

Using case examples, this article provides tips for primary care physicians working with vaccine-hesitant parents.

Access five practical tips for addressing vaccine hesitancy among parents and patients using a checklist.

The PrOTCT framework, like the Ask-Tell-Ask model, provides a stepwise approach to addressing vaccine hesitancy with your patients.

View an educational video on applying the PrOTCT framework to conversations with your patients who are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine.

A brief overview of the ‘Ask-Tell-Ask’ framework’ tool that helps address patients' concerns about vaccination.

In this article, empirical studies and expert practice are used to describe important considerations for physicians and other clinicians about communicating with patients and their families.

This article provides conversational techniques with vaccine-hesitant patients in the presumptive approach framework.

These strategies for health care professionals provide communication tips on how to address parental concerns on vaccine safety.

Learn basic skills on how to have sequenced patient-centred discussions using open-ended questions and focused listening.

Access quick references on conversation approaches and answers to common parental vaccine concerns.

A clinical practice guideline with recommendations for reducing pain during vaccinations in both children and adults.

I Boost Immunity is a non-profit health initiative intended to address misinformation and anti-scientific myths about immunization and communicable diseases.

In these stories, we read about children and adults who were directly affected by a range of preventable diseases such as Chickenpox, Measles and Hepatitis A.

This educational website provides facts about vaccines and diseases they prevent along with personal testimonies organized by disease. 

A Toronto-based family whose two-year-old son died from the flu curate a website dedicated to facts and resources about the flu.

Use these immunization and vaccine awareness materials in your office and share with patients and parents. 

This poster illustrates when we should be immunized throughout our lifespan by age.

This dedicated web page on vaccines and immunization includes a vaccine scheduling tool and personal stories that address vaccine hesitancy.

This toolkit includes handouts health care providers can share with patients when communicating about infectious diseases and the importance of vaccines.  

These resources are updated frequently and offer a range of posters and promotional materials for different immunization campaigns.

This book is a comprehensive Canadian reference on vaccinations written for parents and edited by Dr. Dorothy Moore.