Socioeconomic disparities and COVID-19 vaccination acceptance: a nationwide ecologic study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyse the correlation between COVID-19 vaccination percentage and socioeconomic status (SES).

Methods

A nationwide ecologic study based on open-sourced, anonymized, aggregated data provided by the Israel Ministry of Health. The correlations between municipal SES, vaccination percentage and active COVID-19 cases during the vaccination campaign were analysed by using weighted Pearson correlations. To assess the adequacy of first dose vaccination rollout relative to the municipality COVID-19 disease burden, a metric termed the vaccination need ratio was devised by dividing the total number of active cases (per 10 000 people) by the vaccination percentage of the population over 60 in each municipality, and its correlation with the SES was examined.

Results

SUBMITTER: Caspi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183100 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature