Willingness to Pay a COVID-19 Vaccine: A review Study

The transition from the global epidemic of Corona; Gaining a new experience on a wide and unprecedented scale in the last few centuries in global health made possible the public vaccination of this disease. Examining and analyzing the process of acceptance of vaccination by people will be one of the very important principles in the future research of similar epidemic disease management, policy making and planning in future epidemics.

Methods and Materials: 

The current research is a review-narrative study that was conducted between December 2019 and January 2022. The English language databases Scopus, EMBASE, Google Scholar and Persian SID databases were used to search for the required information. The search strategy was implemented using related keywords and related operators. In addition, criteria were defined for the entry and exit of studies into the research. Finally, to extract information related to studies, forms based on standard indicators were compiled and used.

After checking the databases, a total of 17100 articles were retrieved in the databases, after checking the title and abstract of the articles in the screening phase and removing the articles with no thematic connection, finally, the full text of 27 articles, were included in the study based on the inclusion criteria. The findings of this research showed that the average amount of willingness to pay was higher in high and middle income countries, also there is a direct and significant relationship between people’s willingness to pay for vaccination and the increase in monthly income.

In global epidemics, planning to make vaccines free for low-income people in the society and donating free vaccines to low-income countries, by global organizations in charge of health, can be among the suggested solutions for to streamline vaccination programs. In addition, planning to increase awareness and promote the beliefs of the people of these countries regarding the benefits of vaccination by policy makers and the use of health belief models can be effective in improving the acceptance of vaccination in people.