Social determinants of health and vaccine uptake during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Social determinants of health significantly impact population health status. The aim of this systematic review was to examine which social vulnerability factors or determinants of health at the individual or county level affected vaccine uptake within the first phase of the vaccination program. We performed a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature published from January 2020 until September 2021 in Medline and Embase (Bagaria et al., 2022) and complemented the review with an assessment of pre-print literature within the same period. We restricted our criteria to studies performed in the EU/UK/EEA/US that report vaccine uptake in the general population as the primary outcome and included various social determinants of health as explanatory variables. This review provides evidence of

SUBMITTER: Vardavas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10410576 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature