Research Catalog

Title

The search for new vaccines : the effects of the Vaccines for Children Program / Henry G. Grabowski and John M. Vernon.

Author

Grabowski, Henry G.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Vernon, John M. (John Mitcham), 1937-

Description

vii, 75 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• In this volume, Henry Grabowski and John Vernon examine the effect of the Vaccines for Children program on the incentives to invest in research and development for new and improved vaccines.
• The authors argue that significantly expanding the government sector in pediatric vaccines is a cost-ineffective policy that would lead to unintended adverse consequences. Eliminating most of the private market for vaccines and substituting government purchases at lower prices would suggest to R&D investors that tomorrow's pediatric vaccine breakthroughs are to be valued less than other medical breakthroughs.
• Ironically, a government program designed to advance children's health care could operate to curtail the opportunities for improving it.

Subject

• Vaccines for Children (Program)
• Vaccination of children > Government policy > United States
• Immunization of children > Government policy > United States
• Vaccination > Child
• Public Policy
• Economics, Pharmaceutical
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-67) and index.

Contents

1. The U.S. Vaccine Industry -- 2. Economics of Vaccine Innovation -- 3. A Conceptual Model of the Effects of the VFC Program on Vaccine R&D -- 4. An Empirical Analysis of R&D Determinants -- 5. Conclusions and Policy Issues.

ISBN

0844740330 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

97030439

OCLC

ocm37437509

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Columbia University Libraries