Caregivers' willingness to pay to reduce the number of vaccine injections in infants.
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.
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Heidi
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Center for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. heidi.theeten@ua.ac.be.
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Aerts
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Vandermeulen
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Van Damme
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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*
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