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Effect of measles immunization on child mortality in rural Gambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

P. J. Williams
P. J. Williams
Affiliation:
Ministry of Health, Environment, Labour and Social Welfare, Banjul, Gambia
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The Gambia provides an unusual opportunity for the application of cost analysis to health due to a relatively long history of immunization and recent empirical research. The results should apply not only to immunization programmes but also to a variety of types of primary health care in developing countries. In particular, well-based estimates of the cost per case averted and the cost per death prevented by alternative health interventions should prove to be of widespread interest and usefulness.

Type
Monitoring interventions and assessment of their effects
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 21 , supplement S10: Health Interventions and Mortality Change in Developing Countries , 1989 , pp. 95 - 104
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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