Differences by region of birth in SARS-CoV-2 vaccine coverage and positive SARS-CoV-2 test among 400 000 healthcare workers and the general population in Sweden

COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant women in Sweden and Norway

“…However, our results show that being born outside Scandinavia was associated with lower rates of vaccination while pregnant. This is consistent with findings from the general population in both Sweden and Norway, and among Swedish health care workers [23] . Targeted information to vulnerable groups is necessary while challenging [19] , [21] .…”

Migrant healthcare workers during COVID-19: bringing an intersectional health system-related approach into pandemic protection. A German case study

“…Some additional information was provided by qualitative research with frontline Pakistani emigrant physicians in the National Health Service (NHS) as a specific group of BAME HCWs but did not include comparison (85). Further research was conducted in Sweden (66), in the USA (64) and Quebec, Canada (65). The Canadian and Swedish studies and a few reports of international associations considered migrant HCWs more explicitly (67, 77).…”

“…Records with marginal information on our topic, as well as study protocols and mere opinion papers and editorials without substantive empirical data were also excluded. Finally, 19 articles were selected for the thematic analysis (17, 45, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67).…”

“…More than two third of the studies included in our analysis were concerned with just two major thematic areas: vaccination coverage and attitudes/hesitancy (55,56,57,59,60,64,66) and infection and fear/risk of infection (51,52,53,62,63,65). Disadvantages and discrimination were reported for all countries and both topics, except for one study in the UK that specifically investigated the persistence of vaccine hesitancy and did not identify significant differences related to an ethnic group (55).…”

Mandatory vaccinations, the segregation of citizens, and the promotion of inequality in the modern democracy of Greece and other democratic countries in the era of COVID-19

“…In the United Kingdom, for example, and specifically in London, only 79% of HCWs were vaccinated before the introduction of compulsory vaccination in Greece (BBC, 2021 ), and even in January 2022, 5.4% of all NHS HCWs remained unvaccinated (Iacobucci, 2022 ). In Sweden, the percentage of vaccinated doctors was reported as 96% (Ljung et al, 2022 ), and in the Czech Republic, and 69.8% overall vaccination coverage of HCWs was reported in some tertiary hospitals (Štěpánek et al, 2021 ). Regarding the overall vaccination coverage of citizens, by 12.7.2021 (when the impending law about mandatory vaccinations was announced), Greece ranked 11th among 28 countries in the European Union and including the United Kingdom (Fig.…”