Have you or those around you encountered barriers to getting your COVID-19 vaccines? Keep reading to learn more about how you can support those around you so we can all do our part to keep our community safe!
Here are some of the structural barriers that prevent eligible people in Canada from getting vaccinated:
- Lack of Internet access
- Language barriers
- Lack of transportation to vaccine clinics
- Inability to find childcare
- Difficulty navigating the healthcare system
- Facing stigma
All of these barriers can be overcome with support! If you know someone who is struggling with the vaccination process, offer to help them book their appointment or watch their children while they’re out. Helping others get vaccinated keeps us all safe.
Sources
- Access to the Internet in Canada, 2020
- Impact of COVID-19 on migrants’ access to primary care and implications for vaccine roll-out: a national qualitative study
- Overcoming Healthcare Transportation Barriers: A Case Study
- Transportation Barriers to Health Care in the United States: Findings From the National Health Interview Survey, 1997–2017
- Examining non-attendance of doctor’s appointments at a community clinic in Saskatoon
- ICES COVID-19 Dashboard
- Different faces of discrimination: perceived discrimination among homeless adults with mental illness in healthcare settings
- Improving pathways to primary health care among LGBTQ populations and health care providers: key findings from Nova Scotia, Canada
- ‘It’s not the science we distrust; it’s the scientists’: Reframing the anti-vaccination movement within Black communities
- Medical experimentation and the roots of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Indigenous Peoples in Canada
- Addressing Stigma: Towards a More Inclusive Health System
- Vaccine Rides: Book Transportation to a COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic
