Title
Economic assessment of incorporating the hexavalent vaccine as part of the National Immunization Program of Peru
Date Issued
01 December 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
BioMed Central Ltd.
Abstract
Background: This study aimed to estimate the economic impact of replacing the current Peruvian primary immunization scheme for infants under 1 year old with an alternative scheme with similar efficacy, based on a hexavalent vaccine. Methods: A cost-minimization analysis compared the costs associated with vaccine administration, adverse reactions medical treatment, logistical activities, and indirect social costs associated with time spent by parents in both schemes. A budgetary impact analysis assessed the financial impact of the alternative scheme on healthcare budget. Results: Incorporating the hexavalent vaccine would result in a 15.5% net increase in healthcare budget expenditure ($48,281,706 vs $55,744,653). Vaccination costs would increase by 54.1%, whereas logistical and adverse reaction costs would be reduced by 59.8% and 33.1%, respectively. When including indirect social costs in the analysis, the budgetary impact was reduced to 8.7%. Furthermore, the alternative scheme would enable the liberation of 17.5% of national vaccines storage capacity. Conclusions: Despite of the significant reduction of logistical and adverse reaction costs, including the hexavalent vaccine into the National Immunization Program of Peru in place of the current vaccination scheme for infants under 1 year of age would increase the public financial budget of the government as it would represent larger vaccine acquisition costs. Incorporating the indirect costs would reduce the budgetary impact demonstrating the social value of the alternative scheme. This merits consideration by government bodies, and future studies investigating such benefits would be informative.
Volume
22
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85130013328
PubMed ID
Source
BMC Health Services Research
ISSN of the container
14726963
Sponsor(s)
Funding for the cost-minimization and budget impact analyses was funded by Sanofi. Medical writing support for this manuscript was also funded by Sanofi. However, the funders had no role in the design, data collection, analysis or elaboration of the study.
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