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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccination Coverage in India: An Exploratory Analysis

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VACCINES
卷 10, 期 5, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10050739

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vaccine; hesitancy; coverage; poverty; health; decision

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Our study examines the factors influencing COVID-19 vaccination coverage in India, including vaccine hesitancy, socioeconomic factors, and multidimensional deprivations. We find that vaccine hesitancy and multidimensional poverty have a negative impact on vaccination coverage. Gender also plays a significant role in the relationship between internet access and vaccine coverage.
Our paper examines the key determinants of COVID-19 vaccination coverage in India and presents an analytical framework to probe whether vaccine hesitancy, socioeconomic factors and multi-dimensional deprivations (MPI) play a role in determining COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Our exploratory analysis reveals that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has a negative and statistically significant impact on COVID-19 vaccination coverage. A percentage increase in vaccine hesitancy can lead to a decline in vaccination coverage by 30 percent. Similarly, an increase in the proportion of people living in multi-dimensional poverty reduces the COVID-19 vaccination coverage. A unit increase in MPI or proportion of people living in acute poverty leads to a mean decline in vaccination coverage by 50 percent. It implies that an increase in socioeconomic deprivation negatively impacts health outcomes, including vaccination coverage. We additionally demonstrated that gender plays a significant role in determining how access to digital technologies such as the internet impacts vaccine coverage and hesitancy. We found that, as males' access to the internet increases, vaccination coverage also increases. This may be attributed to India's reliance on digital tools (COWIN, AAROGYA SETU, Imphal, India) to allocate and register for COVID-19 vaccines and the associated digital divide (males have greater digital excess than females). Conversely, females' access to the internet is statistically significant and inversely associated with coverage. This can be attributed to higher vaccine hesitancy among the female population and lower utilization of health services by females.

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