Letter to the editor: Applying incidence-based disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) disease burden estimates to foster change in national vaccination policy, Slovenia, 2017 to 2018

Euro Surveill. 2018 Jul;23(27):1800354. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.27.1800354.

Authors

Mario Fafangel¹, Marta Grgič Vitek¹, Irena Klavs¹

Affiliation

¹ National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

PMID: 29991382
PMCID: PMC6152159
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.27.1800354

No abstract available

Keywords: burden of illness; prioritisation in public health; public health policy; tick-borne encephalitis (TBE); vaccination.

MeSH terms

Cost of Illness*
Encephalitis, Tick-Borne / epidemiology*
Encephalitis, Tick-Borne / prevention & control
Humans
Incidence
Models, Biological
Quality-Adjusted Life Years*
Slovenia / epidemiology
Vaccination / methods*
Viral Vaccines / administration & dosage*

Substances

Viral Vaccines