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Equity Impact Vaccines May Have on Averting Deaths and Medical Impoverishment

2018

In this analysis, authors estimated the number of deaths averted and the number of cases of medical impoverishment averted of ten antigens and their corresponding vaccines across income quintiles for forty-one low- and middle-income countries.

The study found that vaccines administered between 2016 and 2030 would prevent 36 million deaths. Vaccines will have the greatest impact on reducing cases of poverty caused by hepatitis B, helping an estimated 14 million people avoid medical impoverishment. An estimated 5 million and 3 million cases of poverty caused by measles and meningitis A will be averted, respectively. Measles vaccine is estimated to prevent the highest number of deaths: 22 million of the 36 million total. The poorest 20 percent of the population represented over a quarter of deaths prevented by vaccination.

  

Source:

Chang AY, Riumallo-Herl CR, Perales NA et al. The Equity Impact Vaccines May Have on Averting Deaths and Medical Impoverishment in Developing Countries. Health Affairs 2018; 37: 316-324. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0861