Impact of the introduction of new vaccines and vaccine wastage rate on the cost-effectiveness of routine EPI: Lessons from a descriptive study in a Cameroonian health district

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ebong, Cliford E ^a   Levy, Pierre ^b  

^a Ngong District Health Service ^*  (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Cost effectiveness; EPI (Expanded Program of Immunization; Excess vaccine wastage; FIC (Fully Immunized Child); New vaccines; Ngong; Pentavalent vaccine (DPT HB Hib)

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; DPT HB HIB VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; NEW DRUG; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE; YELLOW FEVER VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXPANDED PROGRAM OF IMMUNIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MULTICENTER STUDY;

EID: 79959550120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-9-9     Document Type: Article

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