Journal article
A novel approach to evaluating the UK childhood immunisation schedule: estimating the effective coverage vector across the entire vaccine programme
The availability of new vaccines can prompt policy makers to consider changes to the routine childhood immunisation programme in the UK. Alterations to one aspect of the schedule may have implications for other areas of the programme (e.g. adding more injections could reduce uptake of vaccines featuring later in the schedule). Colleagues at the Department of Health (DH) in the UK therefore wanted to know whether assessing the impact across the entire programme of a proposed change to the UK schedule could lead to different decisions than those made on the current case-by-case basis. This work is a first step towards addressing this question.
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Authors
Languages
- English
Publication year
2015
Journal
BMC Infectious Diseases
Volume
585
Type
Journal article
Categories
- Service delivery
Countries
- United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Tags
- Coverage monitoring
- Performance monitoring
WHO Regions
- European Region
