Measuring social and externality benefits of influenza vaccination

C White - Journal of Human Resources, 2021 - jhr.uwpress.org
Vaccination represents a canonical example of externalities in economics, yet there are few
estimates of their magnitudes. I estimate social and externality benefits of influenza …

Economic costs of influenza‐related work absenteeism

M Akazawa, JL Sindelar, AD Paltiel - Value in Health, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Influenza vaccinations are currently advocated only for individuals over age 50.
However, vaccination of all working‐age people may be warranted based on reduced …

Influenza vaccination campaigns: is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure?

CJ Ward - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014 - aeaweb.org
This paper estimates the overall impact and externality effects of an influenza vaccination
program expanding coverage outside the typical target group. Using a triple-difference …

Valuing vaccination

T Bärnighausen, DE Bloom… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Vaccination has led to remarkable health gains over the last century. However, large
coverage gaps remain, which will require significant financial resources and political will to …

A policy to promote influenza vaccination: a behavioral economic approach

Y Tsutsui, U Benzion, S Shahrabani, GY Din - Health policy, 2010 - Elsevier
The aims of this study were to identify the predictors of people's willingness to be vaccinated
against influenza and to determine how to improve the inoculation rate. The study was …

It'll only hurt a second? Microeconomic determinants of who gets flu shots

J Mullahy - Health economics, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Appreciating how the propensity to be immunized against the flu depends on individual
characteristics and environments is essential for policies regarding influenza control to be …

The role of vaccine effectiveness on individual vaccination decisions and welfare

A Sorensen - Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines a theoretical model designed to characterize a static, individual
vaccination decision environment. I identify and characterize both equilibrium and socially …

Who has a clue to preventing the flu? Unravelling supply and demand effects on the take-up of influenza vaccinations

J Maurer - Journal of health economics, 2009 - Elsevier
Influenza is a serious disease, especially for older people, and incomplete vaccination take-
up poses a major public health challenge. On both the side of physicians and patients, there …

Economic burden of seasonal influenza in the United States

WCWS Putri, DJ Muscatello, MS Stockwell, AT Newall - Vaccine, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Seasonal influenza is responsible for a large disease and economic burden.
Despite the expanding recommendation of influenza vaccination, influenza has continued to …

Economics of employer-sponsored workplace vaccination to prevent pandemic and seasonal influenza

BY Lee, RR Bailey, AE Wiringa, A Afriyie, AR Wateska… - Vaccine, 2010 - Elsevier
Employers may be loath to fund vaccination programs without understanding the economic
consequences. We developed a decision analytic computational simulation model including …