The cost determinants of routine infant immunization services: a meta-regression analysis of six country studies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence on immunization costs is a critical input for cost-effectiveness analysis and budgeting, and can describe variation in site-level efficiency. The Expanded Program on Immunization Costing and Financing (EPIC) Project represents the largest investigation of immunization delivery costs, collecting empirical data on routine infant immunization in Benin, Ghana, Honduras, Moldova, Uganda, and Zambia.

Methods

We developed a pooled dataset from individual EPIC country studies (316 sites). We regressed log total costs against explanatory variables describing service volume, quality, access, other site characteristics, and income level. We used Bayesian hierarchical regression models to combine data from different countries and account for the multi-stage sample de

SUBMITTER: Menzies NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629762 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature