Construction of an indicator framework for vaccine inclusion in public health programs: A Delphi-entropy method study.

ABSTRACT: Governments must decide which vaccine priority to include in their public health programs. Using the modified Delphi and entropy method, we developed an indicator framework for vaccine inclusion at the national, provincial, municipal, and district/county levels, each containing three dimensions. In total, 4 primary indicators, 17 secondary indicators, and 45 tertiary indicators were selected, covering vaccine-preventable diseases, candidate vaccines, and social drivers of the supply and demand sides. From a subjective perspective, there was no significant weighting difference in the primary and secondary indicators at all administrative levels. "Vaccine-preventable diseases" as a primary indicator had the greatest weight in the peer group, of which "Health burden" had the highest weight am

SUBMITTER: Wang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10760382 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature