Reducing Inequalities in Vaccine uptake in the European Region - Engaging Underserved communities

Project Information

RIVER-EU

Grant agreement ID: 964353

DOI

10.3030/964353

EC signature date 12 March 2021

Start date 1 June 2021

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being

Total cost

€ 3 299 750,00

EU contribution

€ 3 299 750,00

Coordinated by

ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS GRONINGEN
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

D6.1 User-friendly online system with educational content and the possibility to collect training points once the activity is completed based on pre-post testing

D 6.1 Establish a user-friendly online system with up-to-date educational content and the possibility to register for educational activities and to collect training points once the activity is completed based on pre-post testing (M24)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

“Why would we?” A qualitative study on COVID-19 vaccination decision making among Ukrainian economic female migrants in Poland

Author(s): Maria Ganczak, Pawel Kalinowski, Piotr Twardowski, Dominika A. Osicka, Oskar Pasek, Łukasz Duda-Duma, Johanna P. M. Vervoort, Michael Edelstein, Marta Kowalska
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: frontiers.org
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1380627

Barriers to primary health care: perspectives of marginalized Roma women and healthcare professionals

Author(s): Jana Marosnikova Plavnicka, Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska, Daniela Filakovska Bobakova
Published in: BMC Health Services Research, Issue 25, 2025, ISSN 1472-6963
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-025-13482-2

‘It was just the given thing to do’: exploring enablers for high childhood vaccination uptake in East London’s Bangladeshi community—a qualitative study

Author(s): Ifra Ali, Sadie Bell, Sandra Mounier-Jack
Published in: BMJ Public Health, Issue 3, 2025, Page(s) e001004, ISSN 2753-4294
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001004

Understanding the health system barriers and enablers to childhood MMR and HPV vaccination among disadvantaged, minority or underserved populations in middle- and high-income countries: a systematic review

Author(s): Jumanah Essa-Hadad, Yanay Gorelik, Johanna Vervoort, Danielle Jansen, Michael Edelstein
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, Issue 34, 2024, Page(s) 368-374, ISSN 1101-1262
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckad232

Health System Barriers to Child Mandatory and Optional Vaccination among Ukrainian Migrants in Poland in the Context of MMR and HPV Vaccines-A Qualitative Study.

Author(s): Ganczak M, Kalinowski P, Pasek O, Duda-Duma Ł, Sobieraj E, Goławski J, Biesiada D, Jansen D, Vervoort JPM, Edelstein M, Kowalska M.
Published in: Int J Environ Res Public Health, Issue 20 (1), 2022, Page(s) 712, ISSN 1660-4601
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20010712

Why are Europe’s underserved still unprotected? A call to address structural barriers to immunisation

Author(s): Alison Maassen, Afsaneh Nejat, Janine de Zeeuw, Lara Tavoschi, Pania Karnaki, Daniela Fiľakovská Bobáková, Maria Elena Tosti, Maurizio Marceca, Erica De Vita, Irina Barbîroş, Michael Edelstein
Published in: The Lancet Primary Care, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 100062, ISSN 3050-5143
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanprc.2025.100062

Health system barriers to HPV-vaccination in adolescent females with a Moroccan or Turkish migration background in the Netherlands: A qualitative study

Author(s): Bert J.D. van Enter, Janine de Zeeuw, Okan Bakar, Siham Bakhlakh, Maarten F. Schim van Der Loeff, Cornelis Boersma, Michael Edelstein, Johanna P.M. Vervoort, Danielle E.M.C. Jansen
Published in: Vaccine, Issue 50, 2025, Page(s) 126827, ISSN 0264-410X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126827

Barriers to HPV vaccination in marginalized Roma communities in Slovakia

Author(s): Daniela Filakovska Bobakova, Jana Plavnicka, Ingrid Urbancikova, Michael Edelstein, Danielle Jansen, Zuzana Dankulincova Veselska
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers in Public Health
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1239963

Enablers to high vaccination uptake among a disadvantaged minority population: a qualitative study of the Arab population of Israel

Author(s): Jumanah Essa-Hadad, Danielle E.M.C. Jansen, Johanna P.M. Vervoort, Michael Edelstein
Published in: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2045-4015
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13584-024-00660-6

Impact of HPV educational intervention on knowledge and vaccination intentions among Ukrainian migrant and refugee parents in Poland

Author(s): Maria Ganczak, Paweł Kalinowski, Marta Kowalska-Babiak, Mufida Nazrieva, Serhij Nyankovskyy, Michael Edelstein
Published in: Frontiers in Public Health, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2296-2565
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1647569

Conference proceedings (2)

Workshop: Empowering examples of high vaccination in minorities: learning from three underserved communities

Author(s): Michael Edelstein, Danielle Jansen, Jumanah Essa-Hadad, Idil Hussein, Ifra Ali
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, Issue Volume 32, issue supplement_3, 2022
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac129.104

Workshop: Health system barriers to vaccination in underserved communities: a tale of four countries

Author(s): Bernadette Kumar, Maria Ganczak, Janine de Zeeuw, Daniela Filakovska Bobakova, Pania Karnaki
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, Issue Volume 32, Issue supplement_3, 2022
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac129.183

Other (2)

Poster: Assessment of needs-based usefulness of interventions to address system barriers to HPVvaccination

Author(s): T Schloemer, H Hecht, K Horstman
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, Issue Volume 32 Supplement_3, 2022
Publisher: Oxford Academics

Poster: Improving childhood vaccination in minorities: a realist review of health system interventions

Author(s): J Essa-Hadad, Y Gorelik, M Edelstein
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, Issue Volume 32 Supplement 3, 2022
Publisher: Oxford Academic

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Don’t pass me by: Tackling vaccine hesitancy among migrants via the RIVER-EU project

Author(s): M Ganczak, T Schloemer
Published in: European Journal of Public Health, Issue 34, 2024, ISSN 1101-1262
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.303