Effect of measles immunization on child mortality in rural Gambia

The Gambia provides an unusual opportunity for the application of cost analysis to health due to a relatively long history of immunization and recent empirical research. The results should apply not only to immunization programmes but also to a variety of types of primary health care in developing countries. In particular, well-based estimates of the cost per case averted and the cost per death prevented by alternative health interventions should prove to be of widespread interest and usefulness.

Child mortality · Child survival · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Health care · Immunization · Infant mortality · Measles · Population · Psychological intervention · Routine immunization · Vaccination · Global Health and Epidemiology · Global Maternal and Child Health · Immunology · Medicine · Nursing · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy