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Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Health Policy. 38:3-15
This study examined the dynamics of vaccine spending and vaccine legislation in the Americas Region over the period 1980-2013. Annual vaccine expenditures from thirty-one countries were extracted from the Pan American Health Organization Revolving Fu
Publikováno v:
Global Health: Science and Practice
Vaccine costs in the developing world have grown from < US$1/child in 2001 to about $21 for boys and $35 for girls in 2014, as more and costlier vaccines are being introduced into national immunization programs. To address these and other challenges,
Autor:
Diana Kizza, Devendra Gnawali, Andrew Carlson, Jonas Mbwanque, Clifford Kamara, Michael McQuestion, Eka Paatashvili, Helene Mambu-Ma-Disu, Khongorzul Dari, Dana Silver
Publikováno v:
Health affairs (Project Hope). 35(2)
A goal of the Global Vaccine Action Plan, led by the World Health Organization, is country ownership by 2020, defined here as the point when a country fully finances its routine immunization program with domestic resources. This article reports the p
Autor:
Clint Pecenka, Jonathan Weiss, Jon Kim Andrus, Deborah Atherly, Katherine Taylor, Angela K. Shen, Michael McQuestion
Publikováno v:
Health affairs (Project Hope). 35(2)
Since the mid-2000s low- and lower-middle-income countries have been focusing on developing and using evidence for immunization policy making, with an increasing emphasis on cost-effectiveness analysis, program costing, and financial flows-particular
Publikováno v:
Health Education & Behavior. 39:268-275
This study models primary abstinence and age at first sex in a cross-sectional sample of Ghanaian youth aged 17 to 22 years. The aim is to examine how reproductive knowledge and social cognitive factors jointly affect the choice to initiate sex. Amon
Publikováno v:
Promotion & Education. 15:15-20
This article reviews the implementation of the community component of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy in Chao, Peru (2001 to 2004) and San Luis, Honduras (2003 to 2005). An evaluation was conducted in 2005 and included
Publikováno v:
Health Affairs. 25:348-356
We examine the relationship between country-level average costs and coverage levels for diptheria-pertussis-tetanus (DTP) vaccines. Coverage data are from the World Health Organization, and cost data are from financial sustainability plans filed with
Autor:
Michael McQuestion
Publikováno v:
Social Science Research. 32:335-345
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is now recognized as a worldwide public health problem. Most theories ascribe IPV to individual, family, or cultural factors. Empirical support for these theories is inconsistent; however, community-level clustering of
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
This paper asks whether intensive outreach services can eliminate socioeconomic differentials in vaccine coverage. In 1990 the Matlab and Child Health/Family Planning Project (MCH-FP) surveyed 4238 respondents in an intervention area that received ou
Publikováno v:
Health policy and planning. 30(3)
Financing is becoming increasingly important as the cost of immunizing the world's children continues to rise. By 2015, that cost will likely exceed US$60 per infant as new vaccines are introduced into national immunization programs. In 2006, 51 lowe