Inequality in Immunization 2024
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2024) | Viewed by 28222
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health inequality; monitoring; immunization
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: health systems; inequalities; social determinants of health
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: health inequalities; immunization; health policy
Interests: immunization; vaccine delivery
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: immunization; monitoring evaluation and learning
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Inequalities persist in the coverage of immunization globally and across the life course. Evidence has revealed gaps or gradients in childhood and adult immunization within and across countries, and with respect to dimensions of inequality such as sex, gender, socio-economic status, place of residence and more. Yet, our understandings of patterns of inequalities in immunization remain incomplete. The year 2024 marks 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). The EPI has galvanized national and global collaboration and helped set up essential infrastructure and standardized processes to universalize access to immunization. In this Special Issue, we place emphasis on research and review articles that deepen our understanding of immunization inequalities as well as highlight entry points or modalities to reduce them. We encourage submissions that apply rigorous and innovative methodological approaches, including multilevel modeling, compound and/or intersectional vulnerabilities or disadvantages, and geospatial approaches, as well as statistical and computational innovations in understanding and summarizing inequalities in immunization.
Dr. Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor
Dr. Devaki Nambiar
Dr. Nicole Bergen
Dr. M. Carolina Danovaro
Dr. Hope L. Johnson
Dr. Ciara Sugerman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- health inequalities
- immunization
- life course
- methodology
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