Resistance to Covid-19 Vaccination: Drivers, Impact on Human Wellbeing, and Policy Implications

本書介紹了在北半球和南半球共10個國家中，利用尖端的大數據和第四次工業革命（4IR）技術，分析對COVID-19疫苗態度的先進方法。作為政策制定者的重要資源，本書探討了對疫苗猶豫的態度和原因，這是世界衛生組織確定的全球十大健康威脅之一。此外，本書還闡明了與積極疫苗態度相關的關鍵因素，旨在提高疫苗接種率。作者探討了幸福感在塑造與健康相關的決策中的作用，並提供了可行的政策建議給政府。通過分享最佳實踐，他們為全球的政策制定者和衛生官員提供了應對未來疫情的必要策略。

Stephanie Rossouw is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Social Science and Humanities at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Stephanie has fulfilled the role of editor of economics at the Journal of Happiness Studies since 2012 and oversees a team of seven associate editors. Stephanie is a Member of the World Wellbeing Panel, Vice-President of Finance for the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS), a member of the board of directors of ISQOLS, a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and a Research Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). She holds a PhD in Economics from the North-West University (South Africa). Stephanie specializes in well-being studies and is the co-creator of the Gross National Happiness Today Project which spans 11 countries, including New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Stephanie played an instrumental role in Statistics New Zealand's adoption of the GNH as an experimental measure of real-time subjective well-being in its COVID-19 data portal. In 2020 and 2024, Stephanie was invited to write "Big Data and Happiness" chapters for the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics and the Encyclopedia on Happiness, Quality of Life and Subjective Well-being. Her research has appeared in journals such as PLOS ONE, Social Indicators Research, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Oxford Development Studies, South African Journal of Economics, and New Zealand Economic Papers, among others.

Talita Greyling is a Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. She specializes in wellbeing economics and quality of life studies and has a keen interest in the applications of the fourth industrial revolution. She developed the initial "Happiness Index" using big data. Consequently, she partnered with Dr Stephanie Rossouw and established the Gross National Happiness. Today Project which continuously researches and develops well-being indices. The project received the Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Award for Innovation. Talita is the author of numerous articles in both multi-disciplinary and economic journals. Since 2020, she has been actively involved in COVID-19 research projects and has published on the topic. She has authored book chapters related to "Big Data and Happiness". She is the associate editor for Pioneers in Quality of Life Theory and Research of the Journal of Applied Research in Quality of Life and a co-editor for Economics in the Journal of Happiness Studies. She is the Vice-President (Membership) and a member of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies board of directors. Furthermore, she is a member of the World Wellbeing Panel and a Research Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Talita is involved in several international collaborations related to well-being research. Talita regularly participates in radio and television shows, has podcasts, and has a TEDx talk about wellbeing and 4IR.

Stephanie Rossouw是紐西蘭奧克蘭科技大學社會科學與人文學院的副教授兼副院長。自2012年以來，Stephanie擔任《幸福研究期刊》經濟學編輯，並負責監督七位副編輯。她是世界幸福專家小組的成員，國際生活品質研究學會（ISQOLS）的財務副會長，ISQOLS董事會成員，約翰內斯堡大學的高級研究員，以及全球勞工組織（GLO）的研究員。她擁有南非西北大學的經濟學博士學位。Stephanie專注於幸福研究，並是《今日國民幸福總體項目》的共同創始人，該項目涵蓋包括紐西蘭、澳大利亞和南非在內的11個國家。Stephanie在新西蘭統計局的COVID-19數據門戶中，將國民幸福作為實時主觀幸福的實驗性衡量指標的採用中發揮了重要作用。在2020年和2024年，Stephanie應邀為《勞動、人力資源和人口經濟學手冊》和《幸福、生活品質和主觀幸福百科全書》撰寫了“大數據與幸福”章節。她的研究發表在《PLOS ONE》、《社會指標研究》、《應用生活品質研究》、《國際企業學期刊》、《牛津發展研究》、《南非經濟學期刊》和《新西蘭經濟論文》等期刊上。

Talita Greyling是南非約翰內斯堡大學經濟學院的教授。她專注於幸福經濟學和生活品質研究，並對第四次工業革命的應用有濃厚興趣。她使用大數據開發了最初的“幸福指數”。因此，她與Stephanie Rossouw合作，建立了《今日國民幸福總體項目》，該項目不斷研究和發展幸福指數。該項目獲得了副校長卓越創新獎。Talita是多學科和經濟學期刊的多篇文章的作者。自2020年以來，她積極參與COVID-19研究項目並發表相關論文。她撰寫了與“大數據和幸福”相關的書籍章節。她是《應用生活品質研究期刊》的“生活品質理論和研究先驅者”副編輯，以及《幸福研究期刊》的經濟學合編。她是國際生活品質研究學會董事會的副會長（會員），並且是世界幸福專家小組和全球勞工組織（GLO）的研究員。Talita參與了多個與幸福研究相關的國際合作項目。她經常參與廣播和電視節目，有自己的播客，並就幸福和第四次工業革命發表了TEDx演講。