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http://hdl.handle.net/1942/43113| Title: | The impact of quality-adjusted life years on evaluating COVID-19 mitigation strategies: lessons from age-specific vaccination roll-out and variants of concern in Belgium (2020-2022) | Authors: | WILLEM, Lander ABRAMS, Steven FRANCO, Nicolas COLETTI, Pietro LIBIN, Pieter WAMBUA, James Couvreur, Simon André, Emmanuel Wenseleers, Tom Mao, Zhuxin TORNERI, Andrea FAES, Christel Beutels, Philippe HENS, Niel |
Issue Date: | 2024 | Publisher: | BMC | Source: | BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 24 (Art N° 1171) | Abstract: | When formulating and evaluating COVID-19 vaccination strategies, an emphasis has been placed on preventing severe disease that overburdens healthcare systems and leads to mortality. However, more conventional outcomes such as quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and inequality indicators are warranted as additional information for policymakers. | Keywords: | COVID-19;Model;Non-pharmaceutical intervention;QALY;SARS-CoV-2;Vaccine;Humans;Belgium;Child;Child, Preschool;Adult;Age Factors;Models, Theoretical;Adolescent;Immunization Programs;Middle Aged;Vaccination;Aged;Young Adult;COVID-19;Quality-Adjusted Life Years;COVID-19 Vaccines;SARS-CoV-2 | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/43113 | e-ISSN: | 1471-2458 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-024-18576-w | ISI #: | 001285456100001 | Rights: | The Author(s) 2024. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution |
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