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A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for Elderly Adults
Vaccine preventable diseases are responsible for a substantial degree of morbidity in the United States as over 18 million annual cases of vaccine preventable disease occur in the U.S. annually. The morbidity due to vaccine preventable disease is disproportionately borne by adults as over 99% of the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34032159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501327211014071 |
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author | Elekwachi, Oluchi Wingate, La’Marcus T. Clarke Tasker, Veronica Aboagye, Lorraine Dubale, Tadesse Betru, Dagmawit Algatan, Razan |
author_facet | Elekwachi, Oluchi Wingate, La’Marcus T. Clarke Tasker, Veronica Aboagye, Lorraine Dubale, Tadesse Betru, Dagmawit Algatan, Razan |
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description | Vaccine preventable diseases are responsible for a substantial degree of morbidity in the United States as over 18 million annual cases of vaccine preventable disease occur in the U.S. annually. The morbidity due to vaccine preventable disease is disproportionately borne by adults as over 99% of the deaths due to vaccine preventable diseases occur within adults, and national data indicates that there racial disparities in the receipt of vaccines intended for elderly adults. A literature review was conducted by using the PubMed database to identify research articles that contained information on the vaccination rates among minority populations for selected vaccines intended for use in elderly populations including those for herpes zoster, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B. A total of 22 articles were identified, 8 of which focused on tetanus related vaccines, 2 of which focused on hepatitis related vaccines, and 12 of which focused on herpes zoster. The findings indicate that magnitude of the disparity for the receipt of tetanus and herpes related vaccines is not decreasing over time. Elderly patients having a low awareness of vaccines and suboptimal knowledge for when or if they should receive specific vaccines remains a key contributor to suboptimal vaccination rates. There is an urgent need for more intervention-based studies to enhance the uptake of vaccines within elderly populations, particularly among ethnic minorities where culturally sensitive and tailored messages may be of use. |
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spelling | pubmed-81557852021-06-07 A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for Elderly Adults Elekwachi, Oluchi Wingate, La’Marcus T. Clarke Tasker, Veronica Aboagye, Lorraine Dubale, Tadesse Betru, Dagmawit Algatan, Razan J Prim Care Community Health FDA Strategies to Close the Health Equity Gap among Diverse Populations Vaccine preventable diseases are responsible for a substantial degree of morbidity in the United States as over 18 million annual cases of vaccine preventable disease occur in the U.S. annually. The morbidity due to vaccine preventable disease is disproportionately borne by adults as over 99% of the deaths due to vaccine preventable diseases occur within adults, and national data indicates that there racial disparities in the receipt of vaccines intended for elderly adults. A literature review was conducted by using the PubMed database to identify research articles that contained information on the vaccination rates among minority populations for selected vaccines intended for use in elderly populations including those for herpes zoster, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B. A total of 22 articles were identified, 8 of which focused on tetanus related vaccines, 2 of which focused on hepatitis related vaccines, and 12 of which focused on herpes zoster. The findings indicate that magnitude of the disparity for the receipt of tetanus and herpes related vaccines is not decreasing over time. Elderly patients having a low awareness of vaccines and suboptimal knowledge for when or if they should receive specific vaccines remains a key contributor to suboptimal vaccination rates. There is an urgent need for more intervention-based studies to enhance the uptake of vaccines within elderly populations, particularly among ethnic minorities where culturally sensitive and tailored messages may be of use. SAGE Publications 2021-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8155785/ /pubmed/34032159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501327211014071 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | FDA Strategies to Close the Health Equity Gap among Diverse Populations Elekwachi, Oluchi Wingate, La’Marcus T. Clarke Tasker, Veronica Aboagye, Lorraine Dubale, Tadesse Betru, Dagmawit Algatan, Razan A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for Elderly Adults |
title | A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for
Elderly Adults |
title_full | A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for
Elderly Adults |
title_fullStr | A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for
Elderly Adults |
title_full_unstemmed | A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for
Elderly Adults |
title_short | A Review of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Immunizations for
Elderly Adults |
title_sort | review of racial and ethnic disparities in immunizations for
elderly adults |
topic | FDA Strategies to Close the Health Equity Gap among Diverse Populations |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8155785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34032159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21501327211014071 |
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