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. 2015 Aug 12:3.
doi: 10.3402/jmahp.v3.29414. eCollection 2015.

The Economic Value of Vaccination: Why Prevention is Wealth

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The Economic Value of Vaccination: Why Prevention is Wealth

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Keywords: Vaccination; antibiotic resistance; benefits; budget; cancers; complications; cost-effectiveness; cost-saving; costs; economic analysis; economic evaluation; economic growth; healthcare resource use; healthcare system; indirect protection; intangible benefits; investment; macroeconomic; nosocomial infections; outbreaks; productivity; public health; quality of life; short-term; societal; vaccination; vaccine industry; vaccines complexity; value.

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Evolution of healthcare prevention budgets in Europe (3).
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Comparison of the estimated annual morbidity in the United States in the pre- and post-vaccine eras (7).
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Incidence and total costs of four major adults vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States (2013).
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Estimated costs of HPV-associated cancers in France, payer perspective.
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Potential mechanism for the link between health and economic output and the roles of clean water, prevention programmes, including vaccination, and hygiene (–4).
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Effect of pandemic influenza on UK gross domestic product (GDP) according to various disease and mitigation scenarios (all strategies assumed to a 60% vaccine uptake) (38).
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Lifelong vaccination costs per fully compliant individual in France (5).
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Budget impact analysis showing the cumulative mean annual percentage payback predicted for introduction of rotavirus vaccination in England and Wales (7). (a) Immediate vaccine immunity waning after vaccination and (b) delayed vaccine immunity waning after vaccination. Price for a full-course regimen was assumed to be £60.
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Annual number of meningitis C cases from 1998/1999 to 2009/2010* (10). *Provisional data.
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Impact of pandemic influenza on different sectors of UK gross domestic product (GDP) (28).
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