SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS ON VACCINES AND VACCINATION AGAINST COVID 19

Abstract

The representations are described as a specific style of knowledge, a specific way of deciphering reality, alluding to common sense thinking, being associated with a personal development that involves cognitive ordering and at the same time finds its beginning, its diffusion and change in the sociocultural context. In the health context given by the COVID 19 pandemic and showing how the greatest strategy used by the different governments of the world, vaccination takes relevance knowledge about representations about vaccination and vaccines. Within the framework of the multicenter study International COVID 19 Awareness and Responses Evaluation Study (ICARE) led by Montreal Behavioral Medicine Center, a survey was developed with a sample of 3330 Argentine adults, between 18 and 70 years old, composed mainly of university students and professionals. The objective of the research has been to know the representations about vaccines and vaccination. Among the results, the social representations of the participants that show great adherence to vaccination and vaccines stand out, with positive concepts in 8 out of 10 and a clear support for protection measures such as isolation and use of more veneer accompanying inoculation while living with COVID 19.

Keywords

• representaciones sociales
• vacunas
• vacunación
• covid 19