Cost effectiveness and cost benefit of viral hepatitis B vaccination in the Slovak Republic
Hudecková, H.; Straka, S.; Szilágyiová, M.; Avdicová, M.; Rusnáková, S.
Central European Journal of Public Health 10(4): 146-148
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 1210-7778 PMID: 12528387 Document Number: 547320
In our work we tried to evaluate the cost effectiveness (CEA) and cost benefit (CBA) of the vaccination strategy of viral hepatitis B (VHB) vaccination in Slovakia. Retrospectively we analysed the incidence of VHB before and after the vaccination against VHB. From the calculated yearly cost (direct and indirect)--treatment costs and vaccination costs--we tried to calculate the estimated financial costs of vaccination strategy in 2000 (89.4 mil. SK), the saved costs (92 mil. SK), cost effectiveness (201 642 SK) and cost benefit (2.70 SK). First a decrease of the incidence (after introduction of measures to prevent nosocomial transmission) had been achieved by vaccination of selected risk groups of the population. A significant positive impact on the incidence of VHB is expected from mass preventive vaccination of infants, introduced in Slovakia in 1998.