Spatial Accessibility and Uptake of Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccinations by Social Vulnerability.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Geographic accessibility predicts pediatric preventive care utilization, including vaccine uptake. However, spatial inequities in the pediatric coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rollout remain underexplored. We assessed the spatial accessibility of vaccination sites and analyzed predictors of vaccine uptake.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study of pediatric COVID-19 vaccinations from the US Vaccine Tracking System as of July 29, 2022, we described spatial accessibility by geocoding vaccination sites, measuring travel times from each Census tract population center to the nearest site, and weighting tracts by their population demographics to obtain nationally representative estimates. We used quasi-Poisson regressions to calculate incid

SUBMITTER: Khazanchi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273882 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature