An article published in BMCPublicHealth reports on the development of a scoring tool to aid prioritising countries’ populations for COVID-19 vaccines more consistently, fairly and transparently.
], is a survey-based methodology widely used in the social sciences to elicit and understand people’s preferences . These results were used to create a scoring tool for prioritising countries for access to vaccines.Public health experts working in different organisations, countries and specialist areas were identified through the professional networks of three of the authors .
Results from the Delphi’s first round were compiled by the lead researcher , with all factors reported by at least two participants presented back to the group in the second round. From this combined list, each participant was asked to, in effect, vote on up to eight factors that they considered most important for assessing vaccine needs across countries. All factors chosen by six or more participants were included in the final set of factors for use in the next stage of the research.
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