PHI news
In the United States, mobile health clinics are an important method for delivering high quality care to medically underserved populations. To address declining vaccination coverage among young children in Boston during the pandemic, Mattapan Community Health Center (Mattapan) and Codman Square Health Center (Codman Square) partnered with the Kraft Center for Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to deploy a pediatric mobile health clinic as an adjunct to their in-person clinical services.
Resource Details
- Population: Youth and Young Adults
- Geographic Areas of Implementation: Urban
- Setting/Context of Implementation: Community
- Topics of Practice: Vaccination
- Outcomes of Interest: Reduction of Health Disparities
- Level of Evidence: Emerging
- Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
- Social Determinants of Health: Social and Community Context
- Outside of US: Yes