Disparities in pneumococcal and influenza immunization among older adults in Israel: A cross-sectional analysis of socio-demographic barriers to vaccination

The role of health determinants in the influenza vaccination uptake among older adults (65+): a scope review

“…Methods used to evaluate vaccination uptake in the cross-sectional and cohort studies and in the systematic reviews were: questionnaires and surveys [13-15, 19, 21, 22, 25, 28, 34-36]; telephone interviews [20,23,27,29,30,33,39,41]; data retrieved from national/regional authorities and health care institutions [12,38,40,49,50]; data retrieved from medical records or vaccination registries [9,10,31,37]; combined methods [11,17,18,24]; focus group discussions [26,32]; face-to-face interviews [42]; database search [47,48].…”

“…The number of participants older than 65 years of study samples ranges from 11% to 100% of all initially included study participants (n= 19.604.711) from across the globe in countries from four continents and in following care settings: Community-dwelling or non-institutionalized citizens [9, 15, 21, 23, 27-31, 33, 36, 39, 42, 48, 50], nursing homes [12,38], combined settings [32,37], outpatient clinics [44], hospitals [18,22], primary care centres/clinics or practices [24,26,43,45], home-based primary care settings [10] and data bases such as the Medicare registry, national vaccine industry or settings of health services/insurance authorities [13,40,46]. In 12 studies, details about the care setting of the participants were not indicated [11,14,16,17,19,20,25,34,35,41,47,49].…”

“…The latter included declining functional status or having a chronic diseases, comorbidities or disabilities [9-12, 14, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27-29, 33, 34, 37-39, 42], that supported VU among older people. Results related to gender were divergent, as some studies reported higher VU in females [12,19,33,34,42,43] and others presented higher VU rates in males [9,10,21,31,40]. Besides those epidemiological and health parameters, health beliefs and experiences with recent vaccinations seem to impact VU for seasonal in uenza vaccination [9, 15, 17, 18, 23, 26, 32, 33, 38, 41-43, 47, 51].…”

“…Furthermore, life-style factors as smoking, low physical activity levels, inadequate diet and alcohol consumption seem to be negatively associated with VU [11,14,19,28,39]. Some studies point to the direction that a higher educational level or higher socio-economic status may support VU in the elderly [20,29,[39][40][41]50]. Strong evidence was found in the eld of healthcare utilization, showing that older citizens with more GP visits, health examinations or screenings and medical check-ups are more likely to receive in uenza vaccination [9, 11, 14, 16-18, 26, 28-31, 34, 41].…”

Factors that influence influenza vaccination rates among the elderly: nurses’ perspectives

“…In Israel, the policy is that all citizens can receive the vaccine at no cost. The vaccination rate in at‐risk populations hovers at about 58–63% (Schwartz et al., ; Yamin, Balicer, & Galvani, ) and 61% among the elderly (OECD, ). Many factors affect this rate, such as a lack of education and misinformation surrounding the influenza vaccine, socio‐economic status and ethnicity, personal beliefs and concerns, and other inefficiencies at the individual patient and broader system level (Abramson & Cohen‐Naor, ; Nagata et al., ; Shemesh et al., ; Zimmerman et al., ).…”