National legislation and spending on vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean
| Autor: | Ana Gabriela Felix Garcia, Jon Kim Andrus, Cara Bess Janusz, Michael McQuestion |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Government medicine.medical_specialty Economic growth Latin Americans Revolving fund Legislation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Environmental health Political science medicine Healthcare Financing Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Social policy Vaccines 030505 public health Health Policy Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Immunization (finance) Infant mortality Latin America Pan American Health Organization Caribbean Region Life course approach Immunization Health Expenditures 0305 other medical science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Health Policy. 38:3-15 |
| ISSN: | 1745-655X 0197-5897 1980-2013 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41271-016-0052-x |
| Popis: | 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 Fund database. Information on vaccine laws and regulations was provided by the PAHO Family, Gender, and Life Course Unit. Both time series and event history models were estimated. The results show that passing an immunization law led a representative country to increase its vaccine spending, controlling for income, infant mortality, population size, and DPT3 vaccine coverage. Countries with higher vaccine coverage were also more likely to have passed laws. Conversely, higher income countries were less likely to have vaccine laws. Vaccine legislation will likely play a similarly important role in other regions as more countries move towards immunization program ownership. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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