Economic impact of a rotavirus vaccination program in Mexico Impacto económico de un programa de vacunación contra rotavirus en México

• Main Authors: Dagna Constenla, F. Raúl Velázquez, Richard D. Rheingans, Lynn Antil, Yolanda Cervantes
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Rotavirus; vacunas contra rotavirus; análisis costo-beneficio; inmunización masiva; gastroenteritis; México; rotavirus vaccines; cost-benefit analysis; mass immunization; Mexico; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Daly
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/b06e2b80cbae401395592b4f1e1af89e

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the cost and benefits of a national rotavirus childhood vaccination program in Mexico. METHODS: A decision-analysis model was designed to take the Mexican health care system's perspective on a comparison of two alternatives: to vaccinate against rotavirus or not. Using p...