Pediatric COVID-19 Health Disparities and Vaccine Equity.

Autor: Oliveira CR; Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.; Department of Biostatistics, Section of Health Informatics, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA., Feemster KA; Vaccine Education Center, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA., Ulloa ER; Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.; Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Health of Orange County, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society [J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc] 2022 Dec 07; Vol. 11 (Supplement_4), pp. S141-S147.
DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piac091
Abstrakt: While most children with coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) experience mild illness, some are vulnerable to severe disease and develop long-term complications. Children with disabilities, those from lower-income homes, and those from racial and ethnic minority groups are more likely to be hospitalized and to have poor outcomes following an infection. For many of these same children, a wide range of social, economic, and environmental disadvantages have made it more difficult for them to access COVID-19 vaccines. Ensuring vaccine equity in children and decreasing health disparities promotes the common good and serves society as a whole. In this article, we discuss how the pandemic has exposed long-standing injustices in historically marginalized groups and provide a summary of the research describing the disparities associated with COVID-19 infection, severity, and vaccine uptake. Last, we outline several strategies for addressing some of the issues that can give rise to vaccine inequity in the pediatric population.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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