The coverage and challenges of increasing uptake of non-National Immunization Program vaccines in China: a scoping review
Mingzhu Jiang, Shu Chen, Xuanxuan Yan, Xiaohua Ying, Shenglan Tang · 2023
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Mingzhu Jiang and four co-authors review uptake of optional vaccines in China in a 2023 scoping review. Four vaccines sit outside the free national program, so families pay out of pocket. The four guard against a flu-like bacterium, a virus tied to cancer, a pneumonia germ, and a gut virus. The team searched nine databases and kept twenty-eight studies on coverage and barriers.
One vaccine, for the flu-like bacterium, reached just over half of children in pooled data from 2016. The other three stayed below thirty percent. Coverage ran lower in poorer regions than in rich eastern ones. High prices, low awareness, and worry about safety and effect were the most cited barriers. The authors urge the state to phase some of these vaccines into the free program, ranked by disease burden and cost.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mingzhu Jiang, Shu Chen, Xuanxuan Yan, Xiaohua Ying, Shenglan Tang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |