Table C.2.

Criteria used for the prioritisation of the city areas for vaccination in the most epidemiological studies. Previous epidemiological meta-analysis studies have been used to calculate the weight of criteria.

Sym.	Factors (criteria)	Definition	Weight	Meta-analysis source	Data source
$C\text{-}1$	People aged over 18 who are current smokers (Daily smoker ratio)	Proportion of adult (18+ years) population, by smoking status (in percent)	2.51	Zheng et al. (2020b)	ABS (2020)
$C\text{-}2$	Cancer incidence per 1,000 population	The total number of malignant cancers (rate)	3.04	Parohan et al. (2020b)	DHHS (2020)
$C\text{-}3$	People reporting being obese (ratio)	Proportion of adult (18+ years) population, who were overweight (pre-obese or obese) (in percent)	3.68	Hussain et al. (2020b)	VHISS (2017)
$C\text{-}4$	People reporting heart disease (ratio)	People reporting heart disease (in percent)	5.19	Zheng et al. (2020b)	DHHS (2020)
$C\text{-}5$	People reporting high blood pressure (Hypertension ratio)	People reporting high blood pressure (in percent)	3.32	Lu et al. (2020b)	DHHS (2020)
$C\text{-}6$	People reporting type 2 diabetes (ratio)	The percentage of people who have type 2 diabetes (in percent)	3.73	Lu et al. (2020b)	DHHS (2020)
$C\text{-}7$	People reporting respiratory disease (ratio)	The percentage of people who reported having current respiratory disease	5.15	Zheng et al. (2020b)	DHHS (2020)
$C\text{-}8$	The people aged over 65 years (ratio)	The ratio of people 60 and over to total population	6.06	Zheng et al. (2020b)	ABS (2020)
$C\text{-}9$	Population density (per sq.km)	Persons per square kilometre (per sq.km)	2.49	Mishra et al. (2020)	Sarkar (2020)