Perspective: Vaccine policies across the pond: Looking at the U.K. and U.S. systems - Cultural and political differences mean that what works in one country can't necessarily be exported to the other

Health Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 755-757

  Freed, Gary L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; POLITICS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIETY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE;

CULTURE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; POLITICS; UNITED STATES; VACCINES;

EID: 20044377449     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.755     Document Type: Short Survey

References (9)

1. See D.M. Salisbury, "Development of Immunization Policy and Its Implementation in the United Kingdom," Health Affairs 24, no. 3 (2005): 744-754;
2. W.A. Orenstein et al., "Immunizations in the United States: Success, Structure, and Stress," Health Affairs 24, no. 3 (2005): 599-610;
3. and J. Colgrove and R. Bayer, "Could It Happen Here? Vaccine Risk Controversies and the Specter of Derailment," Health Affairs 24, no. 3 (2005): 729-739.
4. A.R. Hinman et al., "Childhood Immunization: Laws That Work," Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 30, no. 3 Supp. (2002): 122-127;
5. and W.A. Orenstein and A.R. Hinman, "The Immunization System in the United States: The Role of School Immunization Laws," Vaccine 17, no. 3 Supp. (1999):S19-S24.
6. Orenstein et al., "Immunizations."
7. Orenstein et al., Immunizations Ibid.
8. W.A. Orenstein, L.E. Rodewald, and A.R. Hinman, "Immunization in the United States," in Vaccines, 4th ed., ed. S.A. Plotkin and W.A. Orenstein (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 2004), 1357-1380.
9. Orenstein et al., "Immunizations."