Childhood vaccine refusal in Türkiye: a dual perspective qualitative study of parents and healthcare workers
Background Childhood vaccine refusal is a growing public health challenge worldwide. In Türkiye, formal refusal, defined as a parental decision to decline one or more scheduled vaccines that is documented in primary care immunization records, rose from 183 families in 2011 to more than 12,000 in 2016, yet the structura...