Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Cost-effectiveness of Immunizations

  • Vaccinations save more than $52 billion in total health care costs
  • Meningitis Vaccine – saves $ 2 billion in health care costs
  • Hepatitis B Vaccine – saves $14 health care costs in children and adolescents for every dollar spent
  • Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) Vaccine – saves $9 billion each year
  • Diptheria, Tetanus, Polio (DTP) Vaccine – saves $6 in health care costs for every dollar spent
  • Pneumonia Vaccine – saves $194 million annually

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