Journal
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 146, Issue 2, Pages 197-206Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268817002497
Keywords
Ethnicity; inequalities; vaccination
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This study assessed variation in coverage of maternal pertussis vaccination, introduced in England in October 2012 in response to a national outbreak, and a new infant rotavirus vaccination programme, implemented in July 2013. Vaccine eligible patients were included from national vaccine coverage datasets and covered April 2014 to March 2015 for pertussis and January 2014 to June 2016 for rotavirus. Vaccine coverage (%) was calculated overall and by NHS England Local Team (LT), ethnicity and Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) quintile, and compared using binomial regression. Compared with white-British infants, the largest differences in rotavirus coverage were in other', white-Irish and black-Caribbean infants (-139%, -121% and -107%, respectively), after adjusting for IMD and LT. The largest differences in maternal pertussis coverage were in black-other and black-Caribbean women (-163% and -154%, respectively). Coverage was lowest in London LT for both programmes. Coverage decreased with increasing deprivation and was 140% lower in the most deprived quintile compared with the least deprived for the pertussis programme and 44% lower for rotavirus. Patients' ethnicity and deprivation were therefore predictors of coverage which contributed to, but did not wholly account for, geographical variation in coverage in England.
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