An economic evaluation of the current measles vaccination program: A case study in Zhejiang Province, east China

To evaluate the economic impact of the current measles vaccination program in Zhejiang Province, east China. A decision tree-Markov model with parameters from published literatures, government documents and surveys was developed and used to simulate over 40 years of a birth cohort in Zhejiang Province during the year 2014. The expected cost and effectiveness of the current measles vaccination program was compared against no vaccination. Costs...