Caveats in reporting of national vaccine uptake

Tristan Millington, Kirsty Morrison, Karen Jeffrey, Christopher Sullivan, Amanj Kurdi, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Ben Swallow, Ting Shi, Syed Ahmar Shah, Steven Kerr, Colin R Simpson, Lewis D Ritchie, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh, Igor Rudan

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Abstract

During the work of the Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) group, we reported on vaccine uptake, safety, effectiveness, and waning in specific age groups in Scotland (e.g., 12-17 years) to enable policymakers to make decisions based on evidence generated nearly in real-time [1]. At first, these imperatives appeared methodologically straightforward. However, we soon realised that the seemingly simplest task in theory – i.e., reporting the vaccine uptake – was in fact challenging in practice. We report several caveats that need to be considered when reporting vaccine uptake for a specific age-group at a national level. We also propose a simple stepwise approach for reporting the methods of calculating vaccine uptake in a specific age-group in the context of tracking a large population.

Original languageEnglish
Article number03006
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Global Health
Volume14
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Feb 2024

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Humans
  • Influenza Vaccines
  • Influenza, Human/prevention & control

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