A literature review to identify factors that determine policies for influenza vaccination

Silva, Maria Laura; Perrier, Lionel; Cohen, Jean Marie; Paget, W J; Mosnier, Anne; Späth, Hans-Martin

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.04.006

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“…Having campaigns on HCW vaccinations that promote the influenza vaccine policy will fortify the safety of the health departments and reduce the chances of an epidemic of the disease. During the policy making process, another determinant to be considered is the interaction between the policy makers and the stakeholders; it should be as transparent as possible for the smooth transition and policy application (Silva et al, 2015). This will make it more collaborative and not perceived as disciplinary action.…”

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“…Pro-mandate literature review resulted in nine studies demonstrating legal and ethical support for mandatory influenza vaccinations for HCW. The most relevant evidence for influenza policy-making remains clinical and epidemiological studies, although mathematical modelling and ethical issues have acquired greater importance since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (Silva et al, 2015). While the ethics of influenza mandates have been debated in the medical literature, one of the main supporting arguments for such mandates is the duty of a HCW to protect both the safety of individual patients and the health of the public (Randall, 2013).…”

Section: Legal and Ethical Implications In Support Of Mandatory Vaccimentioning

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Ethical Approaches to Mandating Influenza Vaccinations for Local Health Department Workforce in Georgia

Miller

Akubu-Odero

Hunt

et al. 2019

JGPHA

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Background: The seasonal influenza illness occurs every year in the United States during the cooler months from October to April, sometimes lasting longer. Although certain populations are more susceptible to this condition, data have shown that otherwise healthy individuals have experienced alarming rates of morbidity and mortality associated with these infections. Despite the CDC's recommendation for influenza vaccination for all HCWs, compliance have been lagging among local health departments' workforce. This practice arguably exposes a wide cross section of the U.S. population to the flu, while being served in these facilities. The utilitarian approach provides a framework to examine the ethical implications to the public of mandating influenza vaccination for these employees. Methods:A systematic review of peer-reviewed literature was conducted to address the following research questions: 1) Do local public health departments in Georgia mandate annual influenza vaccinations? 2) What are the ethical considerations for mandating influenza vaccinations for public health employees? and 3) What are the ethical considerations for mandating influenza vaccinations for the community? Twenty-five articles were included in the review.Results: Descriptive analysis shows that there is no mandatory vaccination policy in place for state or local departments in health in the state of Georgia. Most of the literature available relates to policy implementation within acute or long-term care facilities. A systematic review of mandatory influenza vaccination for public health workers focused on four areas: theoretical approaches to increase influenza vaccination coverage and support of, opposition to, and alternative strategies for influenza vaccinations. Conclusions:The utilitarian approach is sufficient for the influenza vaccination policy-making strategies and in the ethical approaches of mandating influenza vaccinations for local health department workforce in Georgia if need be, for vaccination targets are to be achieved.

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Section: Legal and Ethical Implications In Support Of Mandatory Vaccimentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Approaches to Mandating Influenza Vaccinations for Local Health Department Workforce in Georgia

Miller

Akubu-Odero

Hunt

et al. 2019

JGPHA

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“…Every year the World Health Organization (WHO) advices on the composition of the influenza vaccine (Silva et al, 2015), i.e., which virus types to include in the vaccine. To produce a sufficient number of doses, the composition of the vaccine must be determined well before the influenza season starts.…”

Section: Annual Influenza Vaccinementioning

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The benefits of combining early aspecific vaccination with later specific vaccination

Duijzer

Jaarsveld

Dekker

2018

European Journal of Operational Research

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Timing is of crucial importance for successful vaccination. To avoid a large outbreak, vaccines are administered preferably as quickly as possible. However, in the early stages of an outbreak the information on the disease is limited and waiting with the intervention allows to design a more tailored vaccination strategy. In this paper we study the resulting tradeoff between timing of vaccination and the effectiveness of the response.We model disease progression using the seminal SIR model, and consider a decision maker who allocates her budget over two vaccine types: an early aspecific vaccine and a later specific vaccine. We analytically characterize the switching curve separating the parameter space region where the late specific vaccine is preferred from the region where the early aspecific type is preferred. More importantly, weshow that the decision maker should not only consider pure strategies, i.e., strategies which spend the entire budget on one of the types. Instead, she should suitably invest in both vaccine types to benefit both from the early response and from the good vaccine. We prove that at the switching curve, such a hybrid strategy is strictly better than either of the pure strategies due to the non-linear dynamics of epidemics. Numerical experiments show that the associated benefit of hybrid strategies over pure strategies in terms of reduction of the number of infections may be more than 50%. Such experiments also substantiate our restriction to two vaccine types.

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“…Previous studies have examined a wide range of factors that influence vaccination policy making (e.g., Bryson, Duclos, Jolly, & Bryson, ; Silva et al, ; González‐Lorenzo et al, ). Burchett, Mounier‐Jack, Griffiths, and Mills () identify nine criteria that affect national decisions to adopt new vaccines: the importance of the health problem; vaccine characteristics; immunization program considerations; acceptability; accessibility, equity, and ethics; financial/economic issues; the magnitude of impact of a program; alternative interventions; and the policy‐making process.…”

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Interdependency in vaccination policies among Japanese municipalities

Bessho

Ibuka

2018

Health Economics

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Economic theory predicts that vaccination policies at the local level can be negatively affected by the policies of neighboring regions because of free‐riding motives, whereas positive dependency may exist due to policy diffusions among localities. By using the unique variations in the provision of vaccination subsidies in Japan, we assess how vaccination policies in a local government are affected by the decisions of neighboring governments. We find that the provision of vaccination subsidies is positively correlated with the decisions of neighboring localities. Moreover, a correlation is found with neighboring municipalities within the same prefecture but not with those in surrounding prefectures, indicating that the correlations are likely to arise because of mimicking behavior among localities within a prefecture. Our results show that vaccination policies tend to be formed following neighboring municipalities and do not necessarily aim to optimize community health, thus questioning the autonomy of local government authorities regarding vaccination policies.

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A literature review to identify factors that determine policies for influenza vaccination

Cited by 14 publications

References 77 publications

Ethical Approaches to Mandating Influenza Vaccinations for Local Health Department Workforce in Georgia

Ethical Approaches to Mandating Influenza Vaccinations for Local Health Department Workforce in Georgia

The benefits of combining early aspecific vaccination with later specific vaccination

Interdependency in vaccination policies among Japanese municipalities

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