Book contents
- Vaccines as Technology
- Vaccines as Technology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Vaccines as Instruments of Public Health
- 2 The Vaccine Development Ecosystem
- 3 Vaccine Development under Proprietary Paradigms
- 4 Access to Vaccine Technology
- 5 Aligning Vaccine Innovation with Public Health Needs
- 6 Vaccines of the Future
- Conclusion
- Index
4 - Access to Vaccine Technology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2022
- Vaccines as Technology
- Vaccines as Technology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Vaccines as Instruments of Public Health
- 2 The Vaccine Development Ecosystem
- 3 Vaccine Development under Proprietary Paradigms
- 4 Access to Vaccine Technology
- 5 Aligning Vaccine Innovation with Public Health Needs
- 6 Vaccines of the Future
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
A vaccine that overcomes scientific, funding, and R&D constraints and enters the market may still not become available to everybody who needs it. The public health goal of preventing or lessening disease through the administration of vaccines is not fulfilled at the point of market entrance. Rather, it requires that populations indicated for a particular vaccine are able to receive it. A separate dimension of investigating how well the vaccine innovation ecosystem functions is thus the problem of access to existing vaccines.
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- Vaccines as TechnologyInnovation, Barriers, and the Public Health, pp. 93 - 105Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022