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Study Finds Vaccinating Healthy Adults Against Flu Could Save The US $1.3 Billions Annually.(Brief Article)
2001 MAR 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
Routine annual influenza vaccination of all working adults could save the U.S. as much as $1.3 billion each year, according to a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) study published in the March 12, 2001, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Current medical guidelines recommend routine flu vaccination only for people age 50 and older, and other high-risk groups.
The VA study, which examined health, labor, and economic statistics in a sophisticated computer model, took into account rates of illness from influenza, time lost from work, hourly wages, the costs of vaccination, and other direct and indirect costs.
Results showed that on average health costs would be reduced $13.66 per person vaccinated. If all of the nation's 94 million full-time workers, ages 18 to 64, received the vaccination, these savings would total nearly $1.3 billion annually, study authors calculated.
Lead author Kristin L. Nichol, MD, MPH, MBA, of the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said the study provides important evidence in support of a nationwide policy of routine vaccination for all working adults.
"The results show that substantial health and economic benefits could be realized from vaccinating all working adults against influenza, especially when immunization takes place at the ...
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