Evaluating Partial Series Childhood Vaccination Services in a Mobile Clinic Setting

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Pediatr (Phila)
• Personal Author:
  Chen, Weiwei ; Misra, Sanghamitra M. ; Zhou, Fangjun ; Sahni, Leila C. ; Boom, Julie A. ; Messonnier, Mark
• Description:
  This study aims to evaluate the cost-benefit of vaccination services, mostly partial series administration, provided by a mobile clinic program (MCP) in Houston for children of transient and low-income families. The study included 469 patients who visited the mobile clinics on regular service days in 2 study periods in 2014 and 836 patients who attended vaccination events in the summer of 2014. The benefit of partial series vaccination was estimated based on vaccine efficacy/effectiveness data. Our conservative cost-benefit estimates show that, compared with office-based settings, every dollar spent on vaccination by the MCP would result in $0.9 societal cost averted as an incremental benefit in regular service days and $3.7 during vaccination-only events. To further improve the cost-benefit of vaccination services in the MCP, decision-makers and stakeholders may consider improving work efficiency during regular service days or hosting more vaccination events.
• Subjects:
  Cost-Benefit Analysis Humans Immunization Programs Mobile Health Units Poverty Transients And Migrants Vaccination
• Source:
  Clin Pediatr (Phila). 59(7):706-715
• Pubmed ID:
  32111120
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8721745
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  Texas
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  7
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cd0da32da308fd266c3e5b0671230f3cc642332a5db9e9c18f1c59c8f8a45241
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/113055/cdc_113055_DS1.pdf
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