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Individual versus public priorities in the determination of optimal vaccination policies
- Source :
- American journal of epidemiology. 124(6)
- Publication Year :
- 1986
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Abstract
- There is a tendency for governments to decide whether or not to offer routine vaccination on the basis of arguments of financial cost, whereas individuals decide whether or not to accept vaccination on the basis of their perception of the risks involved. Furthermore, some vaccines impart, or appear to impart, a degree of indirect protection to nonvaccinated individuals in the community. For both of these reasons, public motives concerning vaccination differ from those of the individual. The quantitative implications of these differences are explored in this paper. It is found that, under a broad range of conditions, rational informed individuals would "choose" a lower vaccine uptake than would the community if it acted as a whole. The result is applied to the pertussis situation in England over the past 30 years and provides a measure of a public's changing perception of the risks associated with that vaccine.
- Subjects :
- Pertussis Vaccine
Risk
Government
Public economics
Cost–benefit analysis
Epidemiology
business.industry
Whooping Cough
media_common.quotation_subject
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Health Policy
medicine.disease
Public opinion
Vaccination
England
Perception
Public Opinion
medicine
Humans
Routine vaccination
business
Whooping cough
Health policy
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00029262
- Volume :
- 124
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American journal of epidemiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9c17e3751fc93f87b1ccacd7a55fcc58