Publication: Disruption of Health Care Services and COVID-19 Vaccination in Latin America and the Caribbean by Mid-2021
Date
2022-11
ISSN
Published
2022-11
Author(s)
World Bank
United Nations Development Programme
Abstract
Vaccination has constituted the most
effective response to save lives and reactivate economies
and societies. By October 19th, 2022, almost 1,300 million
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine doses had been
administered in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
However, lingering gaps in achieving target vaccination
levels throughout the region are especially concerning as
new SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to emerge. At the regional
level, Chile and Cuba were ahead with almost 91 and 89
percent of the population having completed their initial
vaccination protocol, respectively. At the other end of the
spectrum, Jamaica and Haiti lagged the rest of the region,
with only 26 percent and 2 percent of their populations
vaccinated, respectively. The 2021 high-frequency phone
surveys (HFPS) provide insight into these issues by taking
the pulse of household health care needs and barriers to
access a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic. Using
the information from the first wave of the 2021 HFPS, this
note aims to present an overview of the disruption of health
care services, the need for preventive and non-preventive
health care services, and the status of COVID-19 vaccinations.
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Citation
“World Bank; United Nations Development Programme. 2022. Disruption of Health Care Services and COVID-19 Vaccination in Latin America and the Caribbean by Mid-2021. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/38307 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”