Effects of government health and immunisation financing on routine childhood vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic: a difference-in-differences study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the safeguarding impact of government commitment (defined as the proportion of government expenditure relative to total expenditure) to health and immunisation financing in mitigating the disruptions to routine childhood vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design

A quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study with country fixed effect, leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment.

Setting

Low-income and middle-income countries.

Participants

A cohort of 131 low- and middle-income countries from 2010 to 2023.

Primary outcome measures

Our primary outcomes included the coverage rates for the third dose of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis containing vaccine (DTP3) and the first dose of the measles containing vacc

SUBMITTER: Lee D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12519723 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature