Understanding the behavioural and social drivers of vaccine uptake WHO position paper -- May 2022.

The article presents a position paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) on behavioural and social drivers (BeSD) of COVID-19 vaccine uptake. It describes the WHO BeSD vaccination framework and outlines aspects of development, testing and validation of BeSD tools including surveys and interviews. It summarizes findings of reviews on interventions to improve vaccine uptake and outlines recommendations for using BeSD tools to guide program planning, implementation and evaluation.