BACKGROUND Immunizing health care workers against influenza is important for preventing and reducing disease transmission in health care environments. We describe the ability of Canadian health care organizations to measure influenza immunization coverage among health care workers and identify factors associated with comprehensive influenza immunization measurement. METHODS A Web-based survey...

An economic evaluation of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) immunization was conducted to examine whether Hib immunization should be included in Korea's national immunization program. The costs and benefits included direct and indirect values and an estimation of the economic efficiency. We determined that a universal Hib immunization program in Korea would prevent 17 deaths and 280 invasive ...

Abstract Disruptions in routine immunization caused by COVID-19 put African countries with large vaccine-preventable disease burdens at high risk of outbreaks. Abbas et al. (2020) showed that mortality reduction from resuming outweighs excess exposure during activities. We leverage these estimates to calculate benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) disrupted and apply cost illness (COI) value statistical l...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2018 there were around 20 million children world who didn’t get complete immunization, some even immunized. In fact, obtaining community immunity (herd immunity) requires high immunization coverage (at least 95%) and is evenly distributed. Therefore, at this time support government's program implementing child concentration needed by all heal...

BACKGROUND Improving timely immunisation is key to closing the inequitable gap in immunisation rates between Aboriginal children and non-Indigenous children. Aboriginal Immunisation Officers were employed in Hunter New England Local Health District (HNELHD), New South Wales (NSW), Australia, to telephone the families of all Aboriginal infants prior to the due date for their first scheduled vacc...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of performance-based financial incentives on the influenza immunization rate in primary care physicians' offices. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial during the 1991 influenza immunization season. SETTING Rochester, New York, and surrounding Monroe County during the Medicare Influenza Vaccine Demonstration Project. PARTICIPANTS A total of 54 solo or grou...