Decentralized Open Platform for Vaccination—A German Example: COVID-19-Vacc

Radonjic-Simic, Mirjana; Mahrt, C. R.; Gruschka, Nils; Speck, Andreas; Windrich, Melanie

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“…Acknowledging the challenges centralised vaccination production and distribution faced during the pandemic, there have been calls for ‘platform vaccine technologies, acceleration of flexible manufacturing capabilities, [and] flexible distributed manufacturing technologies’ ( Sell et al, 2021 : 1668). Some have proposed ‘an open and decentralized platform model, which connects various actors and enables them to involve, conduct, and track the vaccination process’ ( Radonjic-Simic et al, 2021 : 23). These models, it must be noted, are proposed to increase the effectiveness of a state-organised or otherwise centralised vaccination programme.…”

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‘Anarchist technologies’: Anarchism, cybernetics and mutual aid in community responses to the COVID-19 crisis

Swann

2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic that gripped the world since the end of 2019 has been felt most immediately both as a health crisis and an economic, social and political crisis. Secondary impacts of social distancing and lockdown in many countries have put strains on people’s capacities to provide essential food and medicines for themselves and their families. In response, outside of centralised government and voluntary sector frameworks, local mutual aid groups have emerged around the world as a primary site of community resilience. Given mutual aid’s strong links to the anarchist political tradition, for example in its identification by Kropotkin as a factor in evolution, this article suggests that these new mutual aid groups can be understood best through the related concept of self-organisation. Tying anarchist approaches to mutual aid and self-organisation together, it is argued that cybernetics and Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model (VSM) offer useful tools in helping both academic analysis and on-the-ground practice assess and improve the effectiveness of mutual aid in and beyond the COVID-19 crisis. The article offers a qualitative thematic analysis of anarchist and related texts published during the pandemic that reflect on mutual aid practice. In doing so, it highlights some of the challenges and tensions such self-organised mutual aid practice might face and proposes a participatory research agenda drawing on Beer’s VSM.

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‘Anarchist technologies’: Anarchism, cybernetics and mutual aid in community responses to the COVID-19 crisis

Swann

2022

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Healthcare Professionals' Experiences From the COVID‐19 Vaccination Program for the Homebound Population in Greece: A Cross‐Sectional Mixed‐Methods National Study

Papageorgiou,

Vlachopoulos,

Gavana

et al. 2024

World Med & Health Policy

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During the pandemic, mobile vaccination units administered COVID‐19 shots to homebound populations. This study explores the perspectives of public healthcare providers involved in Greece's COVID‐19 home vaccination program, aiming to identify challenges and inform improvements in delivering healthcare services at home. This is a cross‐sectional mixed‐methods survey with convergent design, conducted in public Primary Health Care facilities, using a questionnaire. Facilities from all Health Districts were invited. The study population included healthcare professionals and administrative staff engaged in vaccination units. Data were collected from April to July 2022. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and univariate linear regression analysis, while qualitative data underwent thematic analysis. Integration at the analysis phase enhanced understanding and reliability. The study was approved by the Bioethics Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. A total of 1200 participants from 168 facilities across six Health Districts responded. The majority were nurses (34.1%) and general practitioners (24.7%). Participants unanimously praised the program's concept, aligning it with Primary Health Care and expressed readiness for future involvement, but reported time constraints. Those in larger groups found time management easier (1.68, 95% CI [1.28, 2.20], p < 0.001). Thematic analysis of 1070 text responses identified five themes, including guidance for implementation, resource availability, field challenges, professionals' skillsets, and public engagement. Collaboration with colleagues and authorities to address transportation problems proved vital for success. Understaffing and time constraints were evident. Integrating a new service into busy settings poses challenges, underscoring the need for problem‐solving and empowering healthcare personnel to address shortcomings.

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Adoption of Digital Vaccination Services: It Is the Click Flow, Not the Value—An Empirical Analysis of the Vaccination Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

2023

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This research paper examines the adoption of digital services for the vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Based on a survey in Germany’s federal state with the highest vaccination rate, which used digital vaccination services, its platform configuration and adoption barriers are analyzed to understand existing and future levers for optimizing vaccination success. Though technological adoption and resistance models have been originally developed for consumer-goods markets, this study gives empirical evidence especially for the applicability of an adjusted model explaining platform adoption for vaccination services and for digital health services in general. In this model, the configuration areas of personalization, communication, and data management have a remarkable effect to lower adoption barriers, but only functional and psychological factors affect the adoption intention. Above all, the usability barrier stands out with the strongest effect, while the often-cited value barrier is not significant at all. Personalization is found to be the most important factor for managing the usability barrier and thus for addressing the needs, preferences, situation, and, ultimately, the adoption of the citizens as users. Implications are given for policy makers and managers in such a pandemic crisis to focus on the click flow and server-to-human interaction rather than emphasizing value messages or touching traditional factors.

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Decentralized Open Platform for Vaccination—A German Example: COVID-19-Vacc

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

‘Anarchist technologies’: Anarchism, cybernetics and mutual aid in community responses to the COVID-19 crisis

‘Anarchist technologies’: Anarchism, cybernetics and mutual aid in community responses to the COVID-19 crisis

Healthcare Professionals' Experiences From the COVID‐19 Vaccination Program for the Homebound Population in Greece: A Cross‐Sectional Mixed‐Methods National Study

Adoption of Digital Vaccination Services: It Is the Click Flow, Not the Value—An Empirical Analysis of the Vaccination Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

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