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Leaving No One Behind: Interventions and Outcomes of the COVID-19 Vaccine Maximising Uptake Programme

The devastating impact of COVID-19 on individuals and communities has accelerated the development of vaccines and the deployment of ambitious vaccination programmes to reduce the risks of infection, infection transmission and symptom severity. However, many people delay or refuse to get vaccinated a...

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Autores principales: Berrou, Ilhem, Hamilton, Kathryn, Cook, Clare, Armour, Clare, Hughes, Sian, Hancock, Jude, Quigg, Sally, Hajinur, Huda, Srivastava, Seema, Kenward, Charlie, Ali, Amjid, Hobbs, Laura, Milani, Elena, Walsh, Nicola
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9227842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35746447
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060840
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author Berrou, Ilhem
Hamilton, Kathryn
Cook, Clare
Armour, Clare
Hughes, Sian
Hancock, Jude
Quigg, Sally
Hajinur, Huda
Srivastava, Seema
Kenward, Charlie
Ali, Amjid
Hobbs, Laura
Milani, Elena
Walsh, Nicola
author_facet Berrou, Ilhem
Hamilton, Kathryn
Cook, Clare
Armour, Clare
Hughes, Sian
Hancock, Jude
Quigg, Sally
Hajinur, Huda
Srivastava, Seema
Kenward, Charlie
Ali, Amjid
Hobbs, Laura
Milani, Elena
Walsh, Nicola
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description The devastating impact of COVID-19 on individuals and communities has accelerated the development of vaccines and the deployment of ambitious vaccination programmes to reduce the risks of infection, infection transmission and symptom severity. However, many people delay or refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19, for many complex reasons. Vaccination programmes that are tailored to address individual and communities’ COVID-19 concerns can improve vaccine uptake rates and help achieve the required herd-immunity threshold. The Maximising Uptake Programme has led to the vaccination of 7979 people from February–August 2021 in the South West of England, UK, who are at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and/or may not access the COVID-19 vaccines through mass vaccination centres and general practices. These include: people experiencing homelessness; non-English-speaking people; people from minority ethnic groups; refugees and asylum seekers; Gypsy, Roma, Travelers and boat people; and those who are less able to access vaccination centres, such as people with learning difficulties, serious mental illness, drug and alcohol dependence, people with physical and sensory impairment, and people with dementia. Outreach work coupled with a targeted communication and engagement campaign, co-designed with community leaders and influencers, have led to significant engagement and COVID-19 vaccine uptake among the target populations.
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spelling pubmed-92278422022-06-25 Leaving No One Behind: Interventions and Outcomes of the COVID-19 Vaccine Maximising Uptake Programme Berrou, Ilhem Hamilton, Kathryn Cook, Clare Armour, Clare Hughes, Sian Hancock, Jude Quigg, Sally Hajinur, Huda Srivastava, Seema Kenward, Charlie Ali, Amjid Hobbs, Laura Milani, Elena Walsh, Nicola Vaccines (Basel) Article The devastating impact of COVID-19 on individuals and communities has accelerated the development of vaccines and the deployment of ambitious vaccination programmes to reduce the risks of infection, infection transmission and symptom severity. However, many people delay or refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19, for many complex reasons. Vaccination programmes that are tailored to address individual and communities’ COVID-19 concerns can improve vaccine uptake rates and help achieve the required herd-immunity threshold. The Maximising Uptake Programme has led to the vaccination of 7979 people from February–August 2021 in the South West of England, UK, who are at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and/or may not access the COVID-19 vaccines through mass vaccination centres and general practices. These include: people experiencing homelessness; non-English-speaking people; people from minority ethnic groups; refugees and asylum seekers; Gypsy, Roma, Travelers and boat people; and those who are less able to access vaccination centres, such as people with learning difficulties, serious mental illness, drug and alcohol dependence, people with physical and sensory impairment, and people with dementia. Outreach work coupled with a targeted communication and engagement campaign, co-designed with community leaders and influencers, have led to significant engagement and COVID-19 vaccine uptake among the target populations. MDPI 2022-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9227842/ /pubmed/35746447 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060840 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Hughes, Sian
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Kenward, Charlie
Ali, Amjid
Hobbs, Laura
Milani, Elena
Walsh, Nicola
Leaving No One Behind: Interventions and Outcomes of the COVID-19 Vaccine Maximising Uptake Programme
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060840
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