Home-based vaccination records and hypothetical cost-savings due to avoidance of re-vaccinating children
Journal Title: Journal of Vaccines & Immunization - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
As national immunization programmes, particularly those in low- and middle-income countries where administrative recording of services received is often absent or sub-optimal, enter a period of rapidly paced change with new vaccine introductions, it seems important to identify ways to avoid unnecessary re-vaccination of children and the associated costs. Some re-vaccination may be unavoidable, while other re-vaccination is almost certainly avoidable but nevertheless occurs. Unfortunately, the prevalence and epidemiology of re-vaccination of children are ill-described, and potential risks due to re-vaccination are either nil or also unknown. Nonetheless, it is seemingly important to better understand avoidable re-vaccinations that occur as a result of a breakdown along the service delivery continuum.
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Brown DW
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- DOI 10.14312/2053-1273.2014-e1
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