A study led by the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis – International Center for Excellence in Research, India, examined the relative contribution of various biomedical, demographic, and socioeconomic factors to the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in rural India. Researchers survey 775 participants from 262 households in a rural village in Tamil Nadu between June 2021 and September 2022.
Factors linked to socioeconomic status were found to be linked to vaccine receipt, more so than biomedical factors which were targeted by vaccine policies. Future research should explore if government interventions including vaccine mandates, barriers to vaccine access, or peer influence linked to workplace or targeted vaccine promotion campaigns underpin these findings.
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