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Preventing Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Low-Resource Communities
Lance E. Rodewald, MD;
Lauri E. Markowitz, MD
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2009;163(5):487-488.
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Vaccines are one of the most cost-effective public health interventions in existence. Because they directly prevent substantial morbidity and mortality, vaccines can indirectly expand opportunities for health care by sparing health care resources that would otherwise be needed to care for individuals with preventable infectious diseases. Realizing the direct and indirect benefits of vaccines requires an investment of resources to provide the core functions of immunization programs. And this is the challenge—in low-resource communities, how is such an investment made and sustained?
Purchasing vaccine and paying for immunization services is generally a cost-saving activity, from a health care perspective as well as a societal perspective. In the United States, the set of routinely recommended child and adolescent vaccines recommended prior to the year 2000 prevents, for each birth cohort vaccinated, 33 000 deaths and 14 million cases of vaccine-preventable disease and saves $10 . . . [Full Text of this Article] AUTHOR INFORMATION
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