Vaccines for the 21st century : a tool for decisionmaking /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Study Priorities for Vaccine Development
Other Authors: Stratton, Kathleen R., Durch, Jane, Lawrence, Robert S., 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Considerations related to the model and the study
  • Organization of the report
  • Progess in vaccine development
  • Priorities of the IOM Committee in 1985
  • Litigation as a barrier to vaccine development
  • A case study of success
  • Advances in biotechnology and molecular immunology and new opportunities for vaccines
  • Considerations of candidate vaccines
  • Exclusion criteria
  • Additional considerations for inclusion
  • Overview of analytic approach and results
  • A cost-effectiveness approach
  • Model overview
  • Examples: hypothetical vaccine X
  • Results
  • Review of the analytic model
  • Unit of analysis
  • Implementing the analysis
  • Calculation of health benefits
  • Cost factors
  • Vaccine efficacy and utilization
  • Cost-effectiveness ratios
  • Ethical considerations and caveats
  • Ethical and value judgments built into the model
  • Considerations of justice
  • Observations
  • The funding of research
  • Neglected opportunities for vaccine R&D
  • Qualitative judgments
  • Vaccine program concerns
  • Appendixes
  • Borrelia burgdorferi
  • Chlamydia
  • Coccidioides Immitis
  • Cytomegalovirus
  • Enterotoxigenic E. coli
  • Epstein-Barr virus
  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Hepatitis C
  • Herpes simplex virus
  • Histoplasma capsulatum
  • Human papillomavirus
  • Influenza A and B
  • Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
  • Melanoma
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  • Neisseria gonorrhea
  • Neisseria meningitidis
  • Parainfluenza virus
  • Respiratory syncytial virus
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Rotavirus
  • Shigella
  • Streptococcus, group A
  • Streptococcus, group B
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Information on accessing electronic spreadsheets
  • Summary of workshops
  • Questions posed to outside experts and list of responders.