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How have Japanese primary care physicians carried out vaccinations against COVID-19? : Attempts at making the non-scalable ‘scalable’
Kimura, Shuhei Horiguchi, Sachiko Goto, Ryohei Iida, Junko Ozone, Sachiko Kaneko, Makoto Teruyama, Junko Hama, Yusuke Haruta, Junji Miyachi, Junichiro
Kimura, Shuhei
Horiguchi, Sachiko
Goto, Ryohei
Iida, Junko
Ozone, Sachiko
Kaneko, Makoto
Teruyama, Junko
Hama, Yusuke
Haruta, Junji
Miyachi, Junichiro
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2022-11-08
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https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.126366.2
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Vaccine rollouts have been underway to combat the COVID-19 pandemic globally. Based on ongoing interviews with ten primary care physicians ‘in the field’, this paper elucidates how in practice the vaccinations were carried out in Japan in 2021 from a cultural anthropological perspective. We examine what the primary care physicians did to prepare for the rollouts, what problems they faced, and how they responded to these problems. Large-scale vaccination projects are supposed to proceed smoothly and quickly, or to have what Anna Tsing calls ‘scalability’. In practice, however, they required a variety of tasks for coordination, information sharing, and promotion. Despite feeling stressed by the lack of information and exhausted by the work overload, the primary care physicians carried out the vaccinations as an important service to their patients and communities. The findings of this paper will provide valuable materials for improving future vaccine rollouts.
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Kimura S, Horiguchi S, Goto R et al. How have Japanese primary care physicians carried out vaccinations against COVID-19? : Attempts at making the non-scalable ‘scalable’ [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]. F1000Research 2023, 11:1268 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.126366.2)
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