Potential cost-effectiveness of vaccination for rotavirus gastroenteritis in eight Latin American and Caribbean countries Efectividad potencial en función del costo de la vacunación contra la gastroenteritis por rotavirus en ocho países de América Latina y el Caribe

• Main Authors: Richard D. Rheingans, Dagna Constenla, Lynn Antil, Bruce L. Innis, Thomas Breuer
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2007
• Subjects: Rotavirus; vacunas contra rotavirus; análisis costo-beneficio; modelos económicos; América Latina; Región del Caribe; rotavirus vaccines; cost-benefit analysis; models; economic; Latin America; Caribbean Region; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Argentina; Daly
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/a72104e4370e4500b4dc8063c5585531

OBJECTIVES: To estimate the costs, benefits and cost-effectiveness of vaccination for rotavirus gastroenteritis in eight Latin American and Caribbean countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela. METHODS: An economic model was constructed to es...