The Immunization Delivery Cost Catalogue (IDCC) was built to answer the question “what are the unit costs of vaccine delivery across different low- and middle-income country (LMICs) and through a variety of delivery strategies?” Over 22,000 resources from January 2005 to December 2023 were reviewed, including published and grey literature. Data from 119 articles and grey literature reports were extracted and included in the database [ThinkWell, 2024].
This handbook covers principles of vaccine economics, costing immunization services, economic evaluation of vaccines and vaccine programs, and financing and resource tracking of vaccination programs [2023].
Practical methodological guidance for carrying out exercises that involve primary data collection focused on assessing the costs of routine immunization services, including delivery costs, through retrospective costing [EPIC project, 2020].
Methodological guidance on each step of conducting a costing study on immunization campaigns [ThinkWell, 2021].
The National Immunization Strategy costing application (NIS.COST) can be used to estimate the costs and budgeting requirements of a National Immunization Strategy [UNICEF, 2022].
The UNIVAC tool is a single universal vaccine impact and cost-effectiveness decision support model. Input estimates of age-specific disease burden, age/dose-specific vaccine coverage, and effectiveness allow for a simple evaluation of direct vaccination impact on health outcomes [ProVac Initiative, 2023].
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