The equity impact vaccines may have on averting deaths and medical impoverishment in developing countries
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Journal Article
Abstract
With social policies increasingly directed toward enhancing equity through health programs, it is important that methods for estimating the health and economic benefits of these programs by subpopulation be developed, to assess both equity concerns and the programs’ total impact. We estimated the differential health impact (measured as the number of deaths averted) and household economic impact (measured as the number of cases of medical impoverishment averted) of ten antigens and their corresponding vaccines across income quintiles for forty-one low- and middle-income countries. Our analysis indicated that benefits across these vaccines would accrue predominantly in the lowest income quintiles. Policy makers should be informed about the large health and economic distributional impact that vaccines could have, and they should view vaccination policies as potentially important channels for improving health equity. Our results provide insight into the distribution of vaccine-preventable diseases and the health benefits associated with their prevention.
Date Issued
2018-02-01
Date Acceptance
2018-02-01
Citation
Health Affairs, 2018, 37 (2), pp.316-324
ISSN
0278-2715
Publisher
Project HOPE
Start Page
316
End Page
324
Journal / Book Title
Health Affairs
Volume
37
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon this work, for commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Sponsor
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Gavi Alliance
Identifier
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Grant Number
OPP1117543
PO008511
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Health Care Sciences & Services
Health Policy & Services
MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
COST-EFFECTIVENESS
ROTAVIRUS VACCINATION
ECONOMIC-BENEFITS
HERD-IMMUNITY
IMMUNIZATION
EXPENDITURE
HEALTH
DECADE
Publication Status
Published