Key Considerations: Tackling Structural Discrimination and COVID-19 Vaccine Barriers for Roma Communities in Italy

• Main Author: Sarafian, Iliana
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: SSHAP 2022
• Subjects: Health; Hanno; Iceland
• Online Access: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17421; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12413/17421; https://doi.org/10.19088/SSHAP.2022.014; https://doi.org/10.19088/SSHAP.2022.024

This brief highlights how structural discrimination and social exclusion shape attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines among Roma communities in Italy, and the role trusted communal and public authorities can play in supporting vaccine uptake and tackling broader exclusions. Contradictions in the Italian sta...