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The Lancet

Volume 395, Issue 10236, 16–22 May 2020, Pages 1535-1536
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In the aftermath: the legacy of measles in Samoa

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    The World Health Organization (WHO) flagged vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019 (World Health Organisation, 2019b). Vaccine hesitancy has resulted in recent measles outbreaks, such as that in Samoa in 2019, with almost 6000 cases of measles and 83 deaths due to under-vaccination resulting from hesitancy compounded by structural and systemic problems (Thornton, 2020; World Health Organisation, 2019a). While public health organisations strive to provide interventions to promote vaccination at the population level, these are not always based on data about the vaccination drivers and barriers and may instead reflect entrenched practices (McCoy, 2019).

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