COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among marginalized populations in the U.S. and Canada: Protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the development of safe and highly efficacious COVID-19 vaccines, extensive barriers to vaccine deployment and uptake threaten the effectiveness of vaccines in controlling the pandemic. Notably, marginalization produces structural and social inequalities that render certain populations disproportionately vulnerable to COVID-19 incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and less likely to be vaccinated. The purpose of this scoping review is to provide a comprehensive overview of definitions/conceptualizations, elements, and determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among marginalized populations in the U.S. and Canada.

Materials and methods

The proposed scoping review follows the framework outlined by Arksey and O'Malley, and further developed by the Joanna Br

SUBMITTER: Newman PA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970476 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature