Publication
2015
Broader Economic Impact of Vaccination: Reviewing and Appraising the Strength of Evidence
Economic evaluations of public health programs such as immunization often consider only direct health benefits and …
Economic evaluations of public health programs such as immunization often consider only direct health benefits and medical cost savings. Evidence linking immunization to important benefits in indicators such as childhood development, household behavior, and other macro-economic data are unclear. A conceptual framework of the pathways between immunization and these broader economic benefits was developed through expert consultation. The authors obtained articles from previous reviews, snowballing, and expert consultation, and associated them with one of the pathways and assessed them using modified Grading…
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Education/Labor
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Infectious Diseases
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Preferences/Values
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Priority Setting/Ethics
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Evidence Synthesis
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Benefit-Cost Analysis
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
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Social Determinants
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Economics/Finance
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Health/Medicine