TL;DR
The analysis reveals the complex interplay of various factors influencing COVID-19 vaccination decisions, emphasizing the importance of residential areas and urbanization.
The decline in childhood vaccination in the Northern region is a spatially structured phenomenon that reflects and deepens socioeconomic inequalities and demands territorially focused public health policies.
Multiple socioeconomic, structural and operational factors were associated with unvaccinated rates, highlighting the relevance of healthcare service organization even in favorable social contexts and classifying municipalities into risk profiles may help guide interventions to improve coverage.
Emotional support showed a modest positive association with willingness, suggesting supportive social ties may help promote vaccination willingness, and vaccine willingness in this rural setting was shaped by both individual factors and network dynamics.
Despite well-established childhood immunization programs in many high-income countries, vaccination series are often delayed or not completed. Gaps in vaccination coverage are more common among children from socioeconomically disadvantaged households, among whom they are associated with higher rates of related hospital...
Despite Chile’s previously homogeneous vaccination performance, post-pandemic findings reveal emerging socio-spatial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination uptake and the return of demographic and territorial determinants suggests a shift toward structural influences on vaccine uptake.
Abstract Compliance with epidemic prevention norms has been found to be higher in developing regions than in developed regions; however, the nature and underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We propose that socioeconomic development of environments changes the adaptive benefits of fundamental social motives, especially...
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