Burden of disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in children younger than 5 years: global estimates
- K. O'Brien, L. Wolfson, T. Cherian
- Medicine, BiologyThe Lancet
- 12 September 2009
Burden of disease caused by Haemophilus influenzae type b in children younger than 5 years: global estimates
- J. Watt, L. Wolfson, T. Cherian
- MedicineThe Lancet
- 12 September 2009
WHO and UNICEF estimates of national infant immunization coverage: methods and processes.
- A. Burton, R. Monasch, M. Birmingham
- MedicineBulletin of the World Health Organization
- 1 July 2009
WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund annually review data on immunization coverage to estimate national coverage with routine service delivery of the following vaccines, providing an independent technical assessment of the performance of national immunization systems.
Vaccine-preventable Diseases
- L. Brenzel, L. Wolfson, J. Fox-Rushby, Mark Miller, N. Halsey
- Biology, Medicine
- 2006
This chapter analyzes the costs and cost-effectiveness of scaling up the EPI and introducing selected new vaccines into the program. It also summarizes the epidemiology of diseases preventable…
Has the 2005 measles mortality reduction goal been achieved? A natural history modelling study
- L. Wolfson, P. Strebel, M. Gacic-Dobo, E. Hoekstra, J. Mcfarland, B. Hersh
- MedicineThe Lancet
- 20 January 2007
Estimates of measles case fatality ratios: a comprehensive review of community-based studies.
- L. Wolfson, R. Grais, F. Luquero, M. Birmingham, P. Strebel
- MedicineInternational Journal of Epidemiology
- 1 February 2009
Values for measles CFRs remain imprecise, resulting in continued uncertainty about the actual toll measles exacts, and the broad range of case and death definitions, study populations and geography highlight the complexities in extrapolating results for global public health planning.
Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for child health in developing countries
- T. Tan-Torres Edejer, M. Aikins, R. Black, L. Wolfson, R. Hutubessy, D. Evans
- MedicineBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 10 November 2005
On the grounds of cost effectiveness, micronutrients and measles immunisation should be provided routinely to all children, in addition to oral rehydration therapy and case management of pneumonia for those who are sick.
The dynamics of measles in sub-Saharan Africa
- M. Ferrari, R. Grais, B. Grenfell
- EconomicsNature
- 7 February 2008
It is shown that measles epidemics in Niger are highly episodic, particularly in the capital Niamey, and how increased vaccine coverage, but still below the local elimination threshold, could lead to increasingly variable major outbreaks in highly seasonally forced contexts.
Estimating the costs of achieving the WHO-UNICEF Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, 2006-2015.
- L. Wolfson, F. Gasse, J. Okwo-Bele
- Medicine, Political ScienceBulletin of the World Health Organization
- 2008
In the 72 poorest countries, US$ 11-15 billion (30%-40%) of the overall resource needs are unmet if the GIVS goals are to be reached, providing a roadmap of financing gaps that need to be filled to scale up immunization by 2015.
Validity of verbal autopsy procedures for determining cause of death in Tanzania
- P. Setel, D. Whiting, Alan D. Lopez
- Medicine, Political ScienceTropical medicine & international health
- 1 May 2006
To validate verbal autopsy procedures for use in sample vital registration, an important method for deriving cause‐specific mortality estimates where disease burdens are greatest and routine cause-specific mortality data do not exist.
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