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Conversation Guide to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake
The guide helps health care staff and leaders begin to quickly engage in effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination, enabling learning in practice and resolving issues that arise from such conversations.
Highlights
- Guidance to help health care staff and leaders have trust-building conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine, both at work and at home
- Suggested actions to prepare for conversations about COVID-19 vaccination
- Actionable ideas that health care staff and leaders can quickly implement to guide effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination
- Recommendations for addressing specific concerns: What to do, what not to do, and steps to try
- Trust-building methods and resources
This guide is intended to help health care staff and leaders have trust-building conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine, both at work and at home.
- Exploring people’s feelings about the vaccine through respectful, trust-building interactions over time offers the potential to increase the uptake of vaccinations.
- The guide helps health care staff and leaders begin to quickly engage in effective conversations about COVID-19 vaccination, enabling learning in practice and resolving issues that arise from such conversations.
- The focus is on having rich conversations to listen and learn about reasons and feelings for not getting vaccinated — and then seeking to have a dialogue about questions and concerns so that people can consider COVID-19 vaccination.
Additional Information
- New York Times Opinion: Black People Need Better Vaccine Access, Not Better Vaccine Attitudes
- Kaiser Family Foundation and the Black Coalition Against COVID: THE CONVERSATION: Between Us, About Us — W. Kamau Bell talks with Black health care workers about the COVID-19 vaccines