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dc.contributor.author | Batt, K | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fox-Rushby, JA | - |
dc.contributor.author | Castillo-Riquelme, M | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-13T12:03:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2004-09 | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-02-13T12:03:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 2004, 82 (9), pp. 689 - 696 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0042-9686 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1564-0604 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10217 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Evidence-based reviews of published literature can be subject to several biases. Grey literature, however, can be of poor quality and expensive to access. Effective search strategies also vary by topic and are rarely known in advance. This paper complements a systematic review of the published literature on the costs and effects of expanding immunization services in developing countries. The quality of data on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of strategies to increase immunization coverage is shown to be similar across literatures, but the quality of information on costing is much lower in the grey literature. After excluding poorer quality studies from this review we found the quantity of available evidence almost doubled, particularly for more complex health-system interventions and cost or cost-effectiveness analyses. Interventions in the grey literature are more up to date and cover a different geographical spread. Consequently the conclusions of the published and grey literatures differ, although the number of papers is still too low to account for differences across types of interventions. We recommend that in future researchers consider using non-English keywords in their searches. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 689 - 696 | - |
dc.format.extent | 689 - 696 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | World Health Organisation | en_US |
dc.subject | Cost-benefit analysis | en_US |
dc.subject | Developing countries | en_US |
dc.subject | Efficiency, organizational | en_US |
dc.subject | Humans | en_US |
dc.subject | Immunization programs | en_US |
dc.title | The costs, effects and cost-effectiveness of strategies to increase coverage of routine immunizations in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review of the grey literature | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Bulletin of the World Health Organisation | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Bulletin of the World Health Organisation | - |
pubs.issue | 9 | - |
pubs.issue | 9 | - |
pubs.volume | 82 | - |
pubs.volume | 82 | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division/College of Health and Life Sciences | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division/College of Health and Life Sciences/Dept of Life Sciences | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by College/Department/Division/College of Health and Life Sciences/Dept of Life Sciences/Biological Sciences | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by Institute/Theme | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by Institute/Theme/Institute of Environmental, Health and Societies | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Brunel Staff by Institute/Theme/Institute of Environmental, Health and Societies/Health Economics | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Specialist Centres | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/Specialist Centres/HERG | - |
Appears in Collections: | Health Economics Research Group (HERG) |
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