Open AccessCOVID-19 Vaccination Rates by Global Universal Health Care Coverage Status
Author(s) -
Deepa Dongarwar,
Hamisu M. Salihu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of translational medical research and public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2576-9502
pISSN - 2576-9499
DOI - 10.21106/ijtmrph.328
Subject(s) - vaccination , herd immunity , medicine , covid-19 , health care , license , population , pandemic , environmental health , economic growth , political science , disease , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , pathology , law
Healthcare coverage and the type of insurance have always played huge roles in public health outcomes. With coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccination now available across the world, we sought to determine vaccination rates across countries with Universal Health Care (UHC) coverage versus those without. We utilized the vaccination information from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations website, and calculated early vaccination rate for each country as of January, 13, 2021 by dividing the total number of vaccinations given to the total population of the country. We observed that the average early vaccination rate for countries with UHC was 1.55%, whereas that for countries without UHC was 0.51%. Countries with UHC are performing much better than those without UHC in this initial race for providing herd immunity across the globe. Copyright © 2021 Dongarwar and Salihu. Published by Global Health and Education Projects, Inc. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0.