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Producing Standardized Country‑Level Immunization Delivery Unit Cost Estimates
To plan for the financial sustainability of immunization programs and make informed decisions to improve immunization coverage and equity, decision-makers need to know how much these programs cost beyond the cost of the vaccine. Non-vaccine delivery cost estimates can significantly influence the cost-effectiveness estimates used to allocate resources at the country level. However, many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have immunization delivery unit cost estimates available, or have estimates that are uncertain, unreliable, or old. We undertook a Bayesian evidence synthesis to generate country-level estimates of immunization delivery unit costs for LMICs.
Key Points for Decision Makers
- Immunization delivery costs are a necessary component of high-quality cost-effectiveness models, and are also used to inform resource mobilization for immunization programs.
- Our study provides estimates produced via meta-regression analyses that can help improve resource mobilization and planning in situ
Document Type
Article / Report
Categories
- Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting
Tags
- Pooled procurement
- Vaccine markets
- PATH
- Vaccine vial monitors
- Vaccine prices
- Pricing
- Vaccine production n
- VPPEF
- Procurement
- Resource mobilization
- Affordability
- Vaccine security
- Self-procurement
- Supply chain
- Cost-effectiveness
- Supply planning
- UNICEF
- Demand quatification
- Financing
- Vaccine coverage
- Vaccine market dynamics
- GAVI
- Immunization planning
- Jordan
- New vaccine introduction
- Organizational Leadership
Topic References
- Forecasting, Planning and Budgeting