Abstract

BERTONE*, Carola Leticia; ANDRADA**, Marcos Javier  and  TORRES***, Víctor Eduardo. Sociodemographic factors involved in adult immunization in Argentina. 2013. Astrolabio [online]. 2022, n.29, pp.35-64. ISSN 1668-7515.  http://dx.doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n29.34841.

Adult immunization is a public health strategy developed and promoted in recent years as a result of population aging. The increase in the proportion of adults in the population and the concern to promote a healthy aging raises the urgency of providing scientific evidence on the factors associated with adult vaccination. The prevalence of immunizations in adults is below the goals set by the Ministry of Health, so it is proposed as an objective to explore and identify the factors associated with vaccination in adults in Argentina, taking into account the recommendations of the National Immunization Calendar. This is a quantitative, exploratory, and correlative study, whose data source is the National Risk Factor Survey 2013. The methodology develops individual logistic models using these explanatory variables: gender, level of education, health coverage, marital situation, and access to information on vaccines for adults in some media. The analysis unit is for people over 18 years old and the objective subpopulations of the following vaccines are analyzed: double bacterial (tetanus - diphtheria: dT) or triple acellular vaccine for adults (diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis: dTpa), influenza and pneumococcus. As a contribution, it can be mentioned that the results indicate that having seen or heard information about vaccines for adults was the factor that most increases the chances of being immunized in Argentine adults.

Keywords : Vaccination; adults; aging; health-related behaviors; Argentina.

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