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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
卷 111, 期 6, 页码 1049-1054出版社
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306114
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- Value of Vaccination Research Network (VoVRN) through Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1158136]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1158136] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Recently, scholars and policymakers have started to realize that the value of vaccines extends beyond health benefits to encompass economic and social welfare. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significant harms infectious diseases can inflict on society, potentially leading policymakers to take into account the broader societal impacts of vaccination.
In recent years, academics and policymakers have increasingly recognized that the full societal value of vaccination encompasses broad health, economic, and social benefits beyond avoided morbidity and mortality due to infection by the targeted pathogen and limited health care costs. Nevertheless, standard economic evaluations of vaccines continue to focus on a relatively narrow set of health-centric benefits, with consequences for vaccination policies and public investments. The COVID-19 pandemic illustrates in stark terms the multiplicity and magnitude of harms that infectious diseases may inflict on society. COVID-19 has overtaxed health systems, disrupted routine immunization programs, forced school and workplace closures, impeded the operation of international supply chains, suppressed aggregate demand, and exacerbated existing social inequities. The obvious nature of the pandemic's broad effects could conceivably convince more policymakers to identify and account for the full societal impacts of infectious disease when evaluating the potential benefits of vaccination. Such a shift could make a big difference in how we allocate societal resources in the service of population health and in how much we stand to gain from that spending.
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