Primary Care Perspectives: Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy in Black Families: A Discussion - Episode 131

Primary Care Perspectives: Podcast for Pediatricians

In the U.S., Black women are 3 times more likely to experience infant mortality and previously healthy Black children are 3.4 times more likely to die within 30 days after a surgery. What do these statistics – and many others around healthcare, housing and other topics – have to do with vaccine hesitancy? Everything. Latasha Easter, MD, a pediatric resident at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, provides an overview of: disparities in immunization rates; the historical context for distrust of the medical establishment and government among Black patients, and the importance of acknowledging it; the CASE Approach, a framework for conversations with hesitant families; sample conversations and responses; an HPV vaccination success story; social media as an information source; and more.