720 benefit-incidence figures. 6 Yet, even after these have been taken fully into account, it is
difficult to reconcile a finding that primary care confers greater benefit on the richest 20 …

To our knowledge, the present study provides a first time assessment of the contributions of
socioeconomic determinants of immunization coverage in India using the recent National …

Globally, in 2013 over 6 million children younger than 5 years died from either an infectious
cause or during the neonatal period. A large proportion of these deaths occurred in …

With social policies increasingly directed toward enhancing equity through health programs,
it is important that methods for estimating the health and economic benefits of these …

The introduction of punitive measures to control outbreaks of measles in Europe has
sparked debate and public protest about the ethical justification of penalties and …

Mickey Chopra et al. national levels, and as a baseline for future efforts to redress equity
gaps. New technologies can provide a better user interface and geospatial information …

World Health Organization estimates indicate that close to a million children (868,000
children) under the age of five years die in Nigeria each year. This places Nigeria in the …

Childhood vaccination has been promoted as a global intervention aimed at improving child
survival and health, through the reduction of vaccine preventable deaths. However, there …

A preliminary calculation was made of the cost-effectiveness of the measles component of
the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in the Ivory Coast. The calculation is …

Many public and private health programmes fail to reach the poor. Instead, they
disproportionately benefit those who are more economically advantaged. Concern over this …