Resilience learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and its relevance for routine immunization programs

Falope, Oluyemisi; Nyaku, Mawuli; O'Rourke, Colin; Hermany, Lindsay V.; Plavchak, Brittany; Mauskopf, Josephine; Hartley, Louise; Kruk, Margaret E

doi:10.1080/14760584.2022.2116007

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“…During this time, schools began closing and most non-life-threatening medical visits were canceled. These closures had a significant effect on the administration of childhood vaccinations [ 1 , 10 ]. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that within one week of the United States declaring a state of emergency, there was a significant decline in childhood vaccination rates [ 9 ].…”

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“…A survey completed by WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) found that more than half of the 129 countries analyzed had moderate-to-severe declines in their vaccination rates. Reductions of this magnitude are expected to make 80 million children below the age of 1 susceptible to diseases that could be prevented by vaccines [ 10 ]. Since the pandemic there has been an increase in parental vaccine hesitancy, which is contributing to the low vaccination rates.…”

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Factors Affecting Vaccine Attitudes Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic

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The development of vaccines has significantly contributed to the success of disease prevention. However, there has been a sharp decline in immunization rates since COVID-19 spread globally. Seemingly overnight, the world shut down and most non-essential medical procedures were postponed. Since the COVID-19 vaccine became available, and the world started going back to normal these vaccine rates have not recovered. In this paper, we review the published literature to explore how convenience factors, perceived risk of vaccination, media or anti-vaccination ideals/movements, and healthcare professionals affect an individual’s compliance to be vaccinated to better understand the factors that contribute to the change in overall vaccination rates.

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Factors Affecting Vaccine Attitudes Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…In summary, the global scale of disruptions to routine vaccination due to the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the risk of potential VPDs outbreaks in the future and the urgent need for “catch-up vaccination strategy implementation for vulnerable populations and ensuring vaccine coverage equity and health system resilience” [ 65 ]. FBOs can and should be a part of this solution based on their solid track record of previous partnerships that have led to public health successes.…”

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The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Improving Vaccination Confidence & Addressing Vaccination Disparities to Help Improve Vaccine Uptake: A Systematic Review

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Chandrasekhar

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The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the importance of vaccination to support individual health across the life-course, with vaccination playing a central strategy role in mitigating transmission and disease. This required unprecedented mobilization and coordination across all sectors to meet people where they are, enable equitable access, and build vaccination confidence. A literature search was conducted with combinations of the keywords and variations of vaccination and faith-based organizations (FBOs). Search inclusion criteria were: (1) FBO programs that supported public health emergency efforts, including vaccination efforts as the primary outcome; and (2) articles written in English language. A total of 37 articles met inclusion criteria (n = 26 focused on general public health campaigns, n = 11 focused on vaccination efforts). The findings related to public health campaigns fell into four themes: FBO’s ability to (1) tailor public health campaigns; (2) mitigate barriers; (3) establish trust; and (4) disseminate and sustain efforts. The findings related to vaccine uptake efforts fell into three themes: (1) pre-pandemic influenza and HPV vaccination efforts, (2) addressing vaccine disparities in minority communities, and (3) enabling COVID-19 vaccination. This review demonstrated that FBOs have a vital role in both public health campaigns and vaccination initiatives to support high vaccine uptake and confidence.

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“…This notion, however, appears to be somewhat overlooked given the challenges of global health systems during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. (39,(45)(46)(47)(48) . Combined with the concomitant sociopolitical and weather disruptions, this observation calls for renewed efforts to promote HSR to ensure population health and prepare for future shocks (2,38) .…”

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A scoping review to explore the materialisation of health system resilience across three Caribbean countries, Saint Lucia, Dominica, and Haiti: A protocol

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Wautié

Makali

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic offers a window of opportunity for building resilient health systems. As such, it is important to use this opportunity to redesign, strengthen, and adapt health systems to meet current population needs. Health systems resilience (HSR) is even more critical in Caribbean countries which face health, environmental, economic shocks and in certain cases political and social upheavals. This study aims to explore the extent to which Haiti, Dominica, and Saint Lucia have developed HSR into their respective contexts.Methods It will consist of a scoping review of available literature on HSR and/or health systems strengthening (HSS) covering Saint Lucia, Dominica, and Haiti, from 2010 to 2023. It will follow the five-point methodological framework proposed by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) and will answer the following question. What approaches, strategies or interventions contribute to building or strengthening HSR in dealing with shocks across these three countries? The perspectives, concepts, dimensions, and definitions from relevant scientific literature will be combined to generate the research equations. The papers identified via PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Google Scholar and OpenGrey will then be processed on EndNote and independently filtered by two researchers, reinforced by a third researcher in case of disagreement, according to the PRISMA method adjusted to scoping reviews. Following a deductive-inductive method, the material will be analysed thematically to identify the key approaches, strategies and interventions outlined in the retained materials.Results This scoping review intends to produce a preliminary assessment of how HSR is implemented in the three participating countries. It holds the potential to shed new light on the experiences of these three countries in their efforts to attain resilience in their health systemsConclusions This study might offer insight into the role of stakeholders and processes activated for the achievement of HSR in the Caribbean. In addition, it provides the starting point for the development of a tool to understand and realise HSR, tailored to the three countries.

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Resilience learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and its relevance for routine immunization programs

Cited by 8 publications

References 42 publications

Factors Affecting Vaccine Attitudes Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Factors Affecting Vaccine Attitudes Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Improving Vaccination Confidence & Addressing Vaccination Disparities to Help Improve Vaccine Uptake: A Systematic Review

A scoping review to explore the materialisation of health system resilience across three Caribbean countries, Saint Lucia, Dominica, and Haiti: A protocol

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