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COVID-19 Vaccination Among the Arab Bedouin Population: Lessons Learned From a Minority Population

Objectives: We investigated the causes of low COVID-19 vaccination rates among a minority population and highlighted interventions for increasing the vaccination rate. Methods: We reviewed the experience during the mass vaccination campaign period among the Arab Bedouin (AB) in Israel, attempting to...

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Autores principales: Abu-Freha, Naim, Alsana, Hadel, El-Saied, Sabri, Azbarga, Zuya, Aloka, Muhammad, Goda, Tarek, Abu Tailakh, Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8980216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35392540
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604133
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author Abu-Freha, Naim
Alsana, Hadel
El-Saied, Sabri
Azbarga, Zuya
Aloka, Muhammad
Goda, Tarek
Abu Tailakh, Muhammad
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Azbarga, Zuya
Aloka, Muhammad
Goda, Tarek
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description Objectives: We investigated the causes of low COVID-19 vaccination rates among a minority population and highlighted interventions for increasing the vaccination rate. Methods: We reviewed the experience during the mass vaccination campaign period among the Arab Bedouin (AB) in Israel, attempting to determine important causes of low vaccination rates and gathered information from real-life experience and through direct contact with the population during the campaign. Results: Causes for low vaccination rates in the AB are related to the health system infrastructure, crisis management strategies, and population characteristics. Long-standing socioeconomic inequalities, limited resources, and language and culture barriers present special challenges to the task of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. Key interventions for increasing vaccination rates among minority populations include raising awareness, improving vaccination access, and directly targeting risk-groups. To maximize the effectiveness of these interventions they should be culturally adapted and executed according to the needs of each individual target community. Conclusion: Culturally adapted awareness campaigns, interventions, and improved access to vaccines can be accomplished by cooperation between relevant governing and community bodies to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among minorities.
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spelling pubmed-89802162022-04-06 COVID-19 Vaccination Among the Arab Bedouin Population: Lessons Learned From a Minority Population Abu-Freha, Naim Alsana, Hadel El-Saied, Sabri Azbarga, Zuya Aloka, Muhammad Goda, Tarek Abu Tailakh, Muhammad Int J Public Health Public Health Archive Objectives: We investigated the causes of low COVID-19 vaccination rates among a minority population and highlighted interventions for increasing the vaccination rate. Methods: We reviewed the experience during the mass vaccination campaign period among the Arab Bedouin (AB) in Israel, attempting to determine important causes of low vaccination rates and gathered information from real-life experience and through direct contact with the population during the campaign. Results: Causes for low vaccination rates in the AB are related to the health system infrastructure, crisis management strategies, and population characteristics. Long-standing socioeconomic inequalities, limited resources, and language and culture barriers present special challenges to the task of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. Key interventions for increasing vaccination rates among minority populations include raising awareness, improving vaccination access, and directly targeting risk-groups. To maximize the effectiveness of these interventions they should be culturally adapted and executed according to the needs of each individual target community. Conclusion: Culturally adapted awareness campaigns, interventions, and improved access to vaccines can be accomplished by cooperation between relevant governing and community bodies to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among minorities. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8980216/ /pubmed/35392540 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604133 Text en Copyright © 2022 Abu-Freha, Alsana, El-Saied, Azbarga, Aloka, Goda and Abu Tailakh. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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COVID-19 Vaccination Among the Arab Bedouin Population: Lessons Learned From a Minority Population
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title_short COVID-19 Vaccination Among the Arab Bedouin Population: Lessons Learned From a Minority Population
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8980216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35392540
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