Producing Standardized Country-Level Immunization Delivery Unit Cost Estimates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To plan for the financial sustainability of immunization programs and make informed decisions to improve immunization coverage and equity, decision-makers need to know how much these programs cost beyond the cost of the vaccine. Non-vaccine delivery cost estimates can significantly influence the cost-effectiveness estimates used to allocate resources at the country level. However, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have immunization delivery unit cost estimates available, or have estimates that are uncertain, unreliable, or old. We undertook a Bayesian evidence synthesis to generate country-level estimates of immunization delivery unit costs for LMICs.

Methods

From a database of empirical immunization costing studies, we extracted estimates of th

SUBMITTER: Portnoy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7437655 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature