Hepatitis B Screening and Vaccination Strategies for Newly Arrived Adult Canadian Immigrants and Refugees: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Rossi, Carmine ^a,b   Schwartzman, Kevin ^a,c,d   Oxlade, Olivia ^e   Klein, Marina B ^a,d   Greenaway, Chris ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPATITIS B; IMMIGRANT; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MASS SCREENING; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REFUGEE; SEROPREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VACCINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885712731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078548     Document Type: Article

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