Evaluating the impact of using mobile vaccination units to increase COVID-19 vaccination uptake in Cheshire and Merseyside, UK: a synthetic control analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of mobile vaccination units on COVID-19 vaccine uptake of the first dose, the percentage of vaccinated people among the total eligible population. We further investigate whether such an effect differed by deprivation, ethnicity and age.

Design

Synthetic control analysis.

Setting

The population registered with general practices (GPs) in nine local authority areas in Cheshire and Merseyside in Northwest England, UK.

Intervention

Mobile vaccination units that visited 37 sites on 54 occasions between 12 April 2021 and 28 June 2021. We defined intervention neighbourhoods as having their population weighted centroid located within 1 km of mobile vaccination sites (338 006 individuals). A weighted combination of neighbourhoods that had

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10565187 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature