Book contents
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Part I Evidence from Experiments and Behavioural Insights
- Part II Health Behaviours and Policies during Covid-19
- 14 The Effect of COVID-19 on Health and Health Behaviours
- 15 Mental Health and Health Behaviours among Vulnerable Populations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
- 16 Mental Health Interventions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 17 Wrinkles in a Pandemic?
- 18 Can Behavioural Insights Explain Ethnic Minority Vaccination Gaps?
- 19 How Can We Optimise Healthcare Delivery in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- 20 Biases in Vaccine Authorisation
- 21 Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 22 How Do Individuals Perceive the Risk of COVID-19 Compared to Food Poisoning and Influenza?
- Index
- References
18 - Can Behavioural Insights Explain Ethnic Minority Vaccination Gaps?
from Part II - Health Behaviours and Policies during Covid-19
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2025
Book contents
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics
- Part I Evidence from Experiments and Behavioural Insights
- Part II Health Behaviours and Policies during Covid-19
- 14 The Effect of COVID-19 on Health and Health Behaviours
- 15 Mental Health and Health Behaviours among Vulnerable Populations during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
- 16 Mental Health Interventions during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 17 Wrinkles in a Pandemic?
- 18 Can Behavioural Insights Explain Ethnic Minority Vaccination Gaps?
- 19 How Can We Optimise Healthcare Delivery in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- 20 Biases in Vaccine Authorisation
- 21 Trust and the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 22 How Do Individuals Perceive the Risk of COVID-19 Compared to Food Poisoning and Influenza?
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter attempts to provide an assessment of the state of the art, explaining the presence of an ethnic minority vector driving vaccine hesitancy, as well as a list of potential behavioural policy interventions to curb such inequality. We specifically focus on the behavioural insights that can explain the uneven access to vaccine across ethnic groups. This includes incentives and constraints that have been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this chapter we discuss what kind of incentives works and when do certain incentives backfire. We then provide a series of policy recommendations to successfully create and implement vaccine roll-out strategies that members of ethnic minority groups will be receptive to.
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- Behavioural Economics and Policy for PandemicsInsights from Responses to COVID-19, pp. 335 - 347Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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