title: The United Kingdom Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.
abstract: The United Kingdom Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation provides advice to the Ministers of Health on all aspects of vaccination. Under recent legislation a recommendation from the Committee confers the right to the vaccine concerned to the population of England Wales. A critical aspect of both advice and recommendations is that the vaccination is shown to reach a cost-effectiveness threshold. This usually requires sophisticated mathematical modelling and economics.
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom. Andy.Hall@lshtm.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006291:Health Policy; D006113:United Kingdom; D014611:Vaccination / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*