Unit 2: Costing of Immunization Programs

Learning Objectives:

1. Costs – theory and definitions

   • Economist’s definition of costs

   • Types of costs

2. Costing Process

   • Identify inputs, measure inputs, apply unit costs

   • Collecting data on which inputs were used, how many of each, unit costs

   • Data management, quality assessment and quality control

3. Uses in economic evaluation and importance of perspectives

4. Presenting cost data and analysis

5. Adjustments to costs

   • Inflation

   • Discounting

   • Currency

Learning Objectives:

1. Identifying different costs for a routine immunization, by administrative level, by type of service site and by input category (i.e. Vaccine, supply, cold chain, transportation, personnel, infrastructure)

2. Categorization of costs for routine immunization

3. Sampling

4. Major sources of cost and utilization data under a routine immunization program

5. Cost analysis (facility, district/province, national levels)

6. Steps involved in estimating the cost of new vaccine introduction

   • Describing interventions/services

   • Perspective and key assumptions

   • Defining resources

   • Assigning values

7. Once-off vs recurring costs; incremental vs average costs