Best Practices for COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing: Initial Learnings from an Environmental Scan
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Best Practices for COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing: Initial Learnings from an Environmental Scan

Published: Apr 28, 2023
Publisher: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Health Equity COVID-19 Federal Research and Evaluation
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Best Practices for COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing

Time frame: 2022 – 2025

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

Key Findings
  • Many barriers to COVID-19 vaccination and testing services are rooted in historical and ongoing structural racism, economic inequality, and the inequitable allocation of social and health care resources.
  • To increase access to COVID-19 services, programs offered vaccination and testing in multiple venues, such as mass clinics or events, community clinics, health care settings, mobile clinics, and residential homes.
  • Common delivery strategies used to increase awareness of, confidence in, and access to testing and vaccination included partnering with community-based organizations and trusted community leaders; employing multilingual staff; using culturally appropriate, translated messages; expanding hours and walk-up options; limiting identification/documentation requirements, when possible; communicating using multiple channels; and pairing testing and vaccination with other services, such as health care or food assistance.  
This two-pager summarizes findings from an environmental scan of COVID-19 testing and vaccination policies and programs serving people who are medically or socially at disproportionate risk for COVID-19 or related adverse outcomes. 

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