Social capital and pneumococcal vaccination (PPSV23) in community-dwelling older Japanese: a JAGES multilevel cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Inequalities exist between the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination (PPSV23) rate in each municipality among Japanese older adults. Exploring individual-level and community-level intervenable factors is necessary to improve the vaccination rates. We examined the associations between community-level and individual-level social capital and the PPSV23 vaccination among older Japanese adults using multilevel Poisson regression analyses.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

We used data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study, conducted between 3 October 2016 and 10 January 2017 in 631 districts, 39 municipalities and 18 prefectures.

Participants

The target population comprised persons aged 65 years or older who are physically and cogn

SUBMITTER: Iwai-Saito K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8212184 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature