Use of National Health Insurance database to evaluate the impact of public varicella vaccination program on burden of varicella in Taiwan

Vaccine

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 5341-5348

  Tseng, Hung Fu ^a   Tan, Hsiu Fen ^a   Chang, Chen Kang ^b  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SPORT   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Vaccination evaluation; Varicella epidemiology; Varicella vaccine

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVALUATION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIWAN; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OUTPATIENTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; TAIWAN;

EID: 33745453317     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.04.025     Document Type: Article

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