title: Cost effectiveness and cost benefit of viral hepatitis B vaccination in the Slovak Republic.
abstract: In our work we tried to evaluate the cost effectiveness (CEA) and cost benefit (CBA) of the vaccination strategy of viral hepatitis B (VHB) vaccination in Slovakia. Retrospectively we analysed the incidence of VHB before and after the vaccination against VHB. From the calculated yearly cost (direct and indirect)--treatment costs and vaccination costs--we tried to calculate the estimated financial costs of vaccination strategy in 2000 (89.4 mil. SK), the saved costs (92 mil. SK), cost effectiveness (201 642 SK) and cost benefit (2.70 SK). First a decrease of the incidence (after introduction of measures to prevent nosocomial transmission) had been achieved by vaccination of selected risk groups of the population. A significant positive impact on the incidence of VHB is expected from mass preventive vaccination of infants, introduced in Slovakia in 1998.
authors.affiliation: Dpt. of Epidemiology, State Health Institute, Kuzmányho 27, 036 80 Martin, Slovak Republic.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hudecková
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Straka
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szilágyiová
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Avdicová
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rusnáková
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017325:Hepatitis B Vaccines / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018154:Slovakia / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D017325:Hepatitis B Vaccines