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Title Financing vaccines in the 21st century : assuring access and availability / Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 247 pages) : illustrations
Series Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf
Contents Introduction -- Background -- Conceptual framework for the study -- Study process -- Summing up -- Organization of the report -- Origins and rationale of immunization policy -- Legislative history of vaccine policy -- Shared federal and state responsibility for financing -- Shared public and private responsibility for coverage -- Public and private delivery systems -- Private vaccine production -- The setting national of vaccine policy -- Findings -- Public and private insurance coverage -- Public insurance coverage -- Private insurance coverage -- Barriers to a well-functioning immunization finance system -- Findings -- The delivery system -- Delivery of adult and childhood vaccines -- The work of immunizing -- Provider reimbursement -- Barriers to a well-functioning immunization delivery system -- Findings -- Vaccine supply -- Size and growth of the vaccine market -- Vaccine production -- Cost structure -- Research and development -- Industry concentration -- Regulation -- Pricing -- Shortages -- Stockpiles -- CDC contracting -- Barriers to a well-functioning vaccine supply system -- Findings -- Conclusions and alternative strategies -- Conclusions -- Alternative strategies -- Weighing the alternatives -- Recommendations -- Final observations
Summary The national immunization system has achieved high levels of immunization, particularly for children. However, this system faces difficult challenges for the future. Significant disparities remain in assuring access to recommended vaccines across geographic and demographic populations. These disparities result, in part, from fragmented public-private financing in which a large number of children and adults face limited access to immunization services. Access for adults lags well behind that of children, and rates of immunizations for those who are especially vulnerable because of chronic health conditions such as diabetes or heart and lung disease, remain low. "Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: Assuring Access and Availability addresses these challenges by proposing new strategies for assuring access to vaccines and sustaining the supply of current and future vaccines. The book recommends changes to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (AC1P)--the entity that currently recommends vaccines--and calls for a series of public meetings, a post-implementation evaluation study, and development of a research agenda to facilitate implementation of the plan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220)
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SUBJECT United States Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
Subject Vaccination -- United States -- Planning
Vaccines -- Economic aspects -- United States
Vaccination -- Economic aspects -- United States
Vaccination -- Government policy -- United States
Pharmaceutical industry.
Federal government.
Mass Vaccination -- economics
Public Policy
Vaccines -- economics
Drug Industry
Federal Government
Financing, Government
Private Sector
Public Sector
federal government.
federal aid.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
Pharmaceutical industry
Federal government
Vaccination -- Government policy
Vaccination -- Planning
Vaccines -- Economic aspects
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Evaluation of Vaccine Purchase Financing in the United States.
LC no. 2003018817
ISBN 0309526191
9780309526197
1280116099
9781280116094
9786610116096
6610116091
Other Titles Financing vaccines in the twenty-first century