Inequalities in uptake of childhood vaccination in England, 2019-23: longitudinal study
Aidan Flatt, Roberto Vivancos, Neil French, Sophie Quinn, Matthew Ashton, Valérie Decraene, Daniel Hungerford, David Taylor-Robinson · 2024
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Description
Aidan Flatt and co-authors track widening gaps in childhood vaccination across England in a 2024 paper. Overall uptake has been sliding since 2019. The team used general practice records for five vaccines, covering millions of children, and measured how uptake differed between the most and least deprived areas each quarter from 2019 to 2023.
Every vaccine started unequal and grew more so. The gap for the second measles dose at age five widened from about ten to over thirteen percentage points. Meanwhile the pool of children open to measles by age five swelled roughly fifteen-fold in rich areas and twenty-fold in poor ones, because even small percentage drops compound across birth cohorts. The authors warn that falling coverage and deepening inequality together raise outbreak risk.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Aidan Flatt, Roberto Vivancos, Neil French, Sophie Quinn, Matthew Ashton, Valérie Decraene, Daniel Hungerford, David Taylor-Robinson |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |