Improving immunization coverage and equity - technical resources
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| Resource | COSTVAC tool |
|---|---|
| Purpose | To provide guidance on how to estimate the cost of routine immunization from a sample of health facilities and administrative levels of the health system. |
| Content | This Excel-based toolkit provides guidance on sampling, survey instrument development and administration, and calculations. It was developed to help countries more precisely document the shared resource use between the immunization program and other health service provision. Users can define the perspective and scope of the analysis. Part of the ProVac Toolkit. |
| Use | Requires user input. Users can define the perspective and the scope of analysis, and can produce estimates. |
| Contraints/Limitations | The quality of the estimates will depend on the data used and the assumptions made by the user. |
| Example criteria this resource could address | Cost estimates of routine immunization from a sample of health facilities. |
| If available, notes on the development process | Part of the PAHO's Provac e-Toolkit. It has been reviewed during an expert review, where participants represented a wide range of institutions UNICEF, PATH, Sabin Vaccine Institute, CDC, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Argentina’s Ministry of Health, Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria, INSP/Universidad Nacional de Colombia, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Washington, University of North Carolina, Rutgers, Universidad de Cartagena. The ProVac toolkit, which UNIVAC is part of has supported 43 country-level vaccine cost-effectiveness analysis. |
| Additional Links | |
| Link to access the resource | /en/component/content/article/costvac-tool?catid=651&Itemid=101 |