Static Socio-Ecological COVID-19 Vulnerability Index and Vaccine Hesitancy Index for England.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population characteristics can be used to infer vulnerability of communities to COVID-19, or to the likelihood of high levels of vaccine hesitancy. Communities harder hit by the virus, or at risk of being so, stand to benefit from greater resource allocation than their population size alone would suggest. This study reports a simple but efficacious method of ranking small areas of England by relative characteristics that are linked with COVID-19 vulnerability and vaccine hesitancy.

Methods

Publicly available data on a range of characteristics previously linked with either poor COVID-19 outcomes or vaccine hesitancy were collated for all Middle Super Output Areas of England (MSOA, n=6790, excluding Isles of Scilly), scaled and combined into two numeric indices. Mul

SUBMITTER: Welsh CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8717085 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature