Estimating averted illnesses from influenza vaccination for children and pregnant women - El Salvador, Panama, and Peru, 2011-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Estimating the burden of disease averted by vaccination can assist policymakers to implement, adjust, and communicate the value of vaccination programs. Demonstrating the use of a newly available modeling tool, we estimated the burden of influenza illnesses averted by seasonal influenza vaccination in El Salvador, Panama, and Peru during 2011-2018 among two influenza vaccine target populations: children aged 6-23 months and pregnant women.

Methods

We derived model inputs, including incidence, vaccine coverage, vaccine effectiveness, and multipliers from publicly available country-level influenza surveillance data and cohort studies. We also estimated changes in illnesses averted when countries' vaccine coverage was achieved using four different vaccine deployment

SUBMITTER: Chard AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11455982 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature