{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Schnake-Mahl AS"],"funding":["NIAID NIH HHS","NIMH NIH HHS","NIH HHS"],"pagination":["1565-1574"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9913883"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["41(11)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Paid sick leave provides workers with paid time off to receive COVID-19 vaccines and to recover from potential vaccine adverse effects. We hypothesized that US cities with paid sick leave would have higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities than those without such policies. Using county-level vaccination data and paid sick leave data from thirty-seven large US cities in 2021, we estimated the association between city-level paid sick leave policies and vaccination coverage in the working-age population and repeated the analysis using coverage in the population ages sixty-five and older as a negative control. We also examined associations by neighborhood social vulnerability. Cities with a paid sick leave policy had 17 percent higher vaccination coverage than cities without such a policy. We found stronger associations between paid sick leave and vaccination in the most socially vulnerable neighborhoods compared with the least socially vulnerable ones, and no association in the population ages sixty-five and older. Paid sick leave policies are associated with higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities. Increasing access to these policies may help increase vaccination and reduce inequities in coverage."],"journal":["Health affairs (Project Hope)"],"pubmed_title":["Higher COVID-19 Vaccination And Narrower Disparities In US Cities With Paid Sick Leave Compared To Those Without."],"pmcid":["PMC9913883"],"funding_grant_id":["DP5 OD026429","K01 MH116817","K01 AI168579"],"pubmed_authors":["Kolker J","Skinner A","Bilal U","Schnake-Mahl AS","O'Leary G","Diez Roux AV","Mullachery PH","Raifman JR"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Higher COVID-19 Vaccination And Narrower Disparities In US Cities With Paid Sick Leave Compared To Those Without.","description":"Paid sick leave provides workers with paid time off to receive COVID-19 vaccines and to recover from potential vaccine adverse effects. We hypothesized that US cities with paid sick leave would have higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities than those without such policies. Using county-level vaccination data and paid sick leave data from thirty-seven large US cities in 2021, we estimated the association between city-level paid sick leave policies and vaccination coverage in the working-age population and repeated the analysis using coverage in the population ages sixty-five and older as a negative control. We also examined associations by neighborhood social vulnerability. Cities with a paid sick leave policy had 17 percent higher vaccination coverage than cities without such a policy. We found stronger associations between paid sick leave and vaccination in the most socially vulnerable neighborhoods compared with the least socially vulnerable ones, and no association in the population ages sixty-five and older. Paid sick leave policies are associated with higher COVID-19 vaccination coverage and narrower coverage disparities. Increasing access to these policies may help increase vaccination and reduce inequities in coverage.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Nov","modification":"2026-05-28T18:13:38.714Z","creation":"2025-04-04T03:00:43.432Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9913883","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36343316"],"doi":["10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00779"]}}