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Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing health disparities and had a disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Limited COVID-19 data for Asian Americans have led to less attention for this population; nevertheless, available statistics have revealed le...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9413290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36006269 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7080177 |
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author | Wu, Tsu-Yin Yang, Xining Lally, Sarah Rainville, Alice Jo Ford, Olivia Bessire, Rachel Donnelly, Jessica |
author_facet | Wu, Tsu-Yin Yang, Xining Lally, Sarah Rainville, Alice Jo Ford, Olivia Bessire, Rachel Donnelly, Jessica |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing health disparities and had a disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Limited COVID-19 data for Asian Americans have led to less attention for this population; nevertheless, available statistics have revealed lesser known impacts of COVID-19 on this population. Even with significant increases in vaccine supply and recent increases in COVID-19 vaccination rates, racial and ethnic disparities in vaccine uptake still persist. These disparities are amplified for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP). The purpose of this paper is to apply community-engaged and geographic information system (GIS) strategies to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccination uptake by decreasing the structural barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake, with a particular focus on Asian Americans with LEP. Building upon existing community-academic partnerships between the academic unit and community-based organizations, the project team established community-led mobile and pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics to reach underserved individuals in their communities, worked with commercial pharmacies and reserved appointments for community-based organizations, used GIS to establish COVID-19 vaccination sites close to communities with the greatest need, and deployed trusted messengers to deliver linguistically and culturally relevant COVID-19 vaccine messages which built vaccine confidence among the community members. The implementation of mobile clinics expanded COVID-19 vaccine access and community-driven, multi-sector partnerships can increase the capacity to enhance efforts and facilitate access to COVID-19 vaccination for hard-to-reach populations. |
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spelling | pubmed-94132902022-08-27 Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities Wu, Tsu-Yin Yang, Xining Lally, Sarah Rainville, Alice Jo Ford, Olivia Bessire, Rachel Donnelly, Jessica Trop Med Infect Dis Case Report The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing health disparities and had a disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Limited COVID-19 data for Asian Americans have led to less attention for this population; nevertheless, available statistics have revealed lesser known impacts of COVID-19 on this population. Even with significant increases in vaccine supply and recent increases in COVID-19 vaccination rates, racial and ethnic disparities in vaccine uptake still persist. These disparities are amplified for individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP). The purpose of this paper is to apply community-engaged and geographic information system (GIS) strategies to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccination uptake by decreasing the structural barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake, with a particular focus on Asian Americans with LEP. Building upon existing community-academic partnerships between the academic unit and community-based organizations, the project team established community-led mobile and pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics to reach underserved individuals in their communities, worked with commercial pharmacies and reserved appointments for community-based organizations, used GIS to establish COVID-19 vaccination sites close to communities with the greatest need, and deployed trusted messengers to deliver linguistically and culturally relevant COVID-19 vaccine messages which built vaccine confidence among the community members. The implementation of mobile clinics expanded COVID-19 vaccine access and community-driven, multi-sector partnerships can increase the capacity to enhance efforts and facilitate access to COVID-19 vaccination for hard-to-reach populations. MDPI 2022-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9413290/ /pubmed/36006269 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7080177 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/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Wu, Tsu-Yin Yang, Xining Lally, Sarah Rainville, Alice Jo Ford, Olivia Bessire, Rachel Donnelly, Jessica Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities |
title | Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities |
title_full | Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities |
title_fullStr | Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities |
title_full_unstemmed | Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities |
title_short | Using Community Engagement and Geographic Information Systems to Address COVID-19 Vaccination Disparities |
title_sort | using community engagement and geographic information systems to address covid-19 vaccination disparities |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9413290/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36006269 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed7080177 |
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