Journal article
Strategies for the prevention of perinatal hepatitis B transmission in a marginalized population on the Thailand-Myanmar border: a cost-effectiveness analysis
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Background Data on the cost effectiveness of hepatitis B virus (HBV) screening and vaccination strategies for prevention of vertical transmission of HBV in resource limited settings is sparse. Methods A decision tree model of HBV prevention strategies utilised data from a cohort of 7071 pregnant women on the Thailand-Myanmar border using a provider perspective. All options included universal HBV vaccination for newborns in three strategies: (1) universal vac... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Wellcome Trust
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Grant:
Major Overseas Programme in SE Asia (grant number 106698/Z/14/Z
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 552
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-08-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1471-2334
- Source identifiers:
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714174
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- pubs:714174
- Deposit date:
- 2017-08-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Devine et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2017 The Authors. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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