TY - JOUR
T1 - Analyses of the Barriers and Drivers of Ghana’s COVID-19 Vaccination Program Using the 5A Taxonomy
T2 - A Scoping Review
AU - Agboh, Herman Nuake Kofi
AU - Yarney, Lily
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2025.
PY - 2025/1/1
Y1 - 2025/1/1
N2 - The review explored topical vaccination themes in literature to describe the barriers and drivers of effective COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana. We searched Scopus, Medline, Cinahl, and Google Scholar, covering papers published exclusively in Ghana between December 2019 and January 2023. Using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, 27 papers were included in the review. We adopted the 5As taxonomy to organize the papers into five dimensions, namely, Access, Affordability, Awareness, Acceptance, and Activation. Our analysis shows that Acceptance was the most frequently research theme (n = 23, 85.1%), followed by Awareness (n = 19, 70.4%), Activation (n = 14, 52%), Access (n = 7, 25.7%), and Affordability (n = 6, 22.2%). Further, we found awareness campaign messages to be largely concentrated in Accra, Kumasi and other hotspots. Further studies on vaccine financing, access and inclusion of individuals and families in information dissemination campaigns is highly recommended.
AB - The review explored topical vaccination themes in literature to describe the barriers and drivers of effective COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana. We searched Scopus, Medline, Cinahl, and Google Scholar, covering papers published exclusively in Ghana between December 2019 and January 2023. Using predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria, 27 papers were included in the review. We adopted the 5As taxonomy to organize the papers into five dimensions, namely, Access, Affordability, Awareness, Acceptance, and Activation. Our analysis shows that Acceptance was the most frequently research theme (n = 23, 85.1%), followed by Awareness (n = 19, 70.4%), Activation (n = 14, 52%), Access (n = 7, 25.7%), and Affordability (n = 6, 22.2%). Further, we found awareness campaign messages to be largely concentrated in Accra, Kumasi and other hotspots. Further studies on vaccine financing, access and inclusion of individuals and families in information dissemination campaigns is highly recommended.
KW - COVID-19
KW - barriers
KW - drivers
KW - scoping
KW - vaccination
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105000680721
U2 - 10.1177/21582440251323075
DO - 10.1177/21582440251323075
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:105000680721
SN - 2158-2440
VL - 15
JO - SAGE Open
JF - SAGE Open
IS - 1
ER -
