Vaccination take-up and health: Evidence from a flu vaccination program for the elderly()

We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up behavior and hospitalization. Using both administrative and survey data, we implement a regression discontinuity design around the threshold at age 65, and find that the effect of the...

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Autores principales: Brilli, Ylenia, Lucifora, Claudio, Russo, Antonio, Tonello, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7524524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33012930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.09.010
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description We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up behavior and hospitalization. Using both administrative and survey data, we implement a regression discontinuity design around the threshold at age 65, and find that the effect of the program on take-up ranges between 70% and 90% of the average vaccination rate for individuals aged less than 65. We show that this effect is not entirely driven by an income channel, but also depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The results on health outcomes provide suggestive evidence that the program reduces the likelihood of emergency hospitalization.
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spelling pubmed-75245242020-09-30 Vaccination take-up and health: Evidence from a flu vaccination program for the elderly() Brilli, Ylenia Lucifora, Claudio Russo, Antonio Tonello, Marco J Econ Behav Organ Article We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up behavior and hospitalization. Using both administrative and survey data, we implement a regression discontinuity design around the threshold at age 65, and find that the effect of the program on take-up ranges between 70% and 90% of the average vaccination rate for individuals aged less than 65. We show that this effect is not entirely driven by an income channel, but also depends on the expected benefits of vaccination. The results on health outcomes provide suggestive evidence that the program reduces the likelihood of emergency hospitalization. Elsevier B.V. 2020-11 2020-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7524524/ /pubmed/33012930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.09.010 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33012930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.09.010
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