A Narrative Review of the Strategy for COVID-19 Vaccination

Sani Rachman Soleman, Ahmed M Refaat

Abstract


Background: COVID-19 vaccination is a health intervention to halt the escalation of the pandemic. Several countries have succeeded in rolling out vaccination policy for the population.

Objective: This paper aims to provide strategies for implementing COVID-19 vaccination.

Methods: A narrative review was proposed to gather published papers about strategies for vaccination rollout from the PubMed search engine using the Boolean method. All types of paper, including experiment, cohort study, mathematical model, and other observational studies, were included in the analysis. Comments, perspectives, letters to the editor, and opinions were included as long as they provided accurate descriptions of the implementation of COVID-19 vaccination. The papers were extracted, synthesised, and analysed, and 461 were found eligible. After extraction, the synthesis found 24 eligible papers for further analysis.

Results: From the analysis of these papers, several categories were found and classified as the role of local and regional governments, partnership, intergovernmental networking, role of public figures, role of pharmacists, role of religious leaders, developing vaccine manufacture, developing digital infrastructure, developing vaccine centres, public preferences, priority groups, free of charge, strengthening family physician, communication, and reward and punishment. Hence, the four major components of vaccination strategy are system, networking, stakeholders, and infrastructure.

Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic requires a comprehensive system to terminate the spread of infection by vaccination. However, a successful vaccination program needs a strategy consisting of a system, networking, stakeholders, and infrastructure.

International Journal of Human and Health Sciences Vol. 07 No. 03 Jul’23 Page: 212-219


Keywords


COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination, strategy implementation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31344/ijhhs.v7i3.577

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