Public finance of universal routine childhood immunization in India: district-level cost estimates.

ABSTRACT: India's Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) is among the largest routine childhood vaccination programmes in the world. However, only an estimated 65% of Indian children under the age 2 years were fully vaccinated in 2019. We estimated the cost of raising childhood vaccination coverage to a minimum of 90% in each district in India. We obtained vaccine price data from India's comprehensive multi-year strategic plan for immunization. Cost of vaccine delivery by district was derived from a 2018 field study in 24 districts. We used propensity score matching methods to match the remaining Indian districts with these 24, based on indicators from the National Family Health Survey (2015-16). We assumed the same unit cost of vaccine delivery in matched pair districts and estimated the total and

SUBMITTER: Schueller E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8826633 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature