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Is vaccination a valuable preventive strategy?

Cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination for older people: a study in five western European countries. Ament A, Baltussen R, Duru G, Rigaud-Bully C, De Graeve D, et al , Journal of infectious diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol 31, nr 2, pp 444-50.

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Is vaccination a valuable preventive strategy?

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  1. Cost-effectiveness of pneumococcal vaccination for older people: a study in five western European countries Ament A, Baltussen R, Duru G, Rigaud-Bully C, De Graeve D, et al, Journal of infectious diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol 31, nr 2, pp 444-50

  2. Is vaccination a valuable preventive strategy? • Pneumococcal Pneumonia is a serious threat to our health • Treatment of Pneumococcal pneumonia is costly • This is especially true in the elderly • Vaccination can eliminate part of the clinical and economic consequences of pneumococcal disease • But it generates costs as well (vaccine, administration, side-effects…)  Analyse the cost-effectiveness of vaccination

  3. Restriction to invasive disease – Analysis in five countries • Much better evidence of clinical protection of the vaccine against invasive disease • Information on the cost-effectiveness of vaccination in preventing invasive disease could provide strong support for public policies to provide strong support for public policies to vaccinate older individuals • Belgium France, Scotland, Spain and Sweden; same methodology, different data

  4. Characteristics of the evaluation • Alternatives compared: • vaccination versus treatment of persons 64+ years • Measures of costs and effects • Costs (C): direct medical costs for society in € 1995 • Effects (E): number of qualys gained • CE-ratio: C (Vaccination) - C (Treatment ) E (Vaccination) - E (Treatment)

  5. Year 1 …year five Country-specific, age specific mortality rates

  6. Results of the sensitivity analyses

  7. Results of the sensitivity analyses

  8. Conclusions • The results support recent recommendations to vaccinate people aged 65 years and older with Pneumococcal P.S. Vaccine • Even when only considering invasive disease, this strategy is acceptably to moderately cost-effective (less so for the very old) • Very reliable data on incidence and mortality of S. pneumoniae would be good to convince the sceptics

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