The value of vaccination

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 697, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-8

  Bloom, David E ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DRUG RESEARCH; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VACCINATION; WELLBEING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; HEALTH; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; MASS IMMUNIZATION;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MASS VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79952279075     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7185-2_1     Document Type: Article

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6. An early exposition of the arguments given here is Bloom DE, Canning D. The health and wealth of nations. Science. 2000;287:1207-9.
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8. This relationship was originally highlighted in Preston S. The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Popul Stud. 1975;29(2): 231-48.
9. Data source: World Bank. 2008. World Development Indicators 2008.
10. These points are discussed in Bloom DE, Canning D, Jamison D. Health, wealth, and welfare. Finance Dev. 2004;41(1):10-15.
11. Translated into Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, and Arabic. Reprinted in Giorgio S, editor. The Development Economics Reader. London: Routledge; 2008. p. 248-57.
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15. For an example of taking this broader view, see Bloom DE., Bärnighausen T, Canning D, O'Brien J. Accounting for the full benefits of childhood vaccination in South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2008;98(11):42-46.
16. Bloom DE, Canning D, Weston M. The value of vaccination. World Econ. July-Sep 2005;6(3):15-39.
17. Reprinted in Stevens P, editor. Fighting the diseases of poverty. London: International Policy Press; 2007. p. 214-38