Impact of population aging on the burden of vaccine-preventable diseases among older adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Despite vaccination recommendations, the burden of vaccine-preventable diseases remains high in older adults in the United States (US), contributing to substantial morbidity, mortality, and health care resource use and costs. To adequately plan for health care resource needs and to help inform vaccination policies, burden of disease projections that account for population aging over the coming decades are needed. As a first step, this exploratory study projects the burden of influenza, pertussis, herpes zoster, and pneumococcal disease in adults aged 50 y and older in the US, using a population-based modeling framework with separate decision trees for each vaccine-preventable disease. The model uses projected population estimates from the US Census Bureau to account for changes in the US p

SUBMITTER: Talbird SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7899694 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature