Life-Course Approach to Vaccination in Bangladesh for Meeting the Health and Health-Related Sustainable Development Goals: A Commentary.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 34549784.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1093/infdis/jiab455 and PMC identifier 8687081.
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Abstract
Bangladesh is entering from low-income to lower-middle-income status in 2020, and this will be completed in the next 5 years. With gross national income growing, vaccines will need to be procured through private market for the Expanded Program on Immunization. A cost-benefit analysis is needed to evaluate vaccine demand in different socioeconomic groups in the country, to inform this procurement. Moreover, disease burden studies and awareness of importance of specific vaccines are needed as we move forward. A life-course approach to vaccination may enable whole society to realize the full potential of vaccination and address most significant threats to its success over time.
Medical subject headings
- Cholera
- Cholera Vaccines
- Sustainable Development
- Vaccination