title: Caregivers' willingness to pay to reduce the number of vaccine injections in infants.
abstract: As part of a larger face-to-face immunization coverage survey, 1347 families of infants (18-24 months) were questioned on their willingness to pay for a reduction in the number of concomitant vaccine injections. The median willingness to pay for a reduction by 1 injection was 5 EUR. The responses fell into 3 broad categories (willing to pay nothing at all, or anything, or a finite amount) and were hardly influenced by socioeconomic determinants. These results suggest that more sophisticated methods are required, and similar analyses should exert a similar level of caution when presenting their results.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. heidi.theeten@ua.ac.be.
authors.forename: Heidi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Theeten
authors.forename: Niel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hens
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aerts
authors.forename: Corinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vandermeulen
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roelants
authors.forename: Karel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hoppenbrouwers
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van Damme
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Beutels
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D017028:Caregivers; D005102:Health Expenditures; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007115:Immunization Schedule; D007223:Infant; D012044:Regression Analysis; D014611:Vaccination / Q000191:economics* / Q000523:psychology; D017778:Vaccines, Combined / Q000191:economics*
chemical_list: D017778:Vaccines, Combined