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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Systematic review on the cost effectiveness of human papillomavirus vaccination in Asia and its implication in Hong Kong

Yuen, Wing-mei., 阮泳薇. January 2012 (has links)
Background: Human papillomavirus vaccination is newly developed in this decade. There are 2 types of vaccines. Bivalent vaccine targets on HPV types 16, 18 to prevent cervical cancer. Quadrivalent vaccine target on HPV type 6, 11, 16, 18 to prevent genital warts and cervical cancer. England has adopted a population –based HPV vaccination program. In attempt to find out the worthiness to implement the population-based vaccination program in Hong Kong, this project reviewed 15 cost-effectiveness analyses in Asian countries. Asian countries may have the similar characteristics, such as culture, sex behavior, genome, etc, that makes the result more applicable to Hong Kong. Methodology: Cost-effectiveness analysises of human papillomavirus vaccination were identified by the searching engine MEDLINE (Ovid) by using relevant keywords. All English and Chinese articles relevant to the topic were identified. Articles conducted for the cost-effectiveness of human papillomavirus vaccine in Asian countries were considered as the potential literature for the review. Result and Discussion: The searching engine identified 259 literatures, 16 of them are in Asian countries, 1 of them did not meet the criteria of quality assessment. 15 of them are included in this review. 6 different model approaches were used in the 15 articles. Results from the same countries in 2 separated articles were heterogeneous. That may probably due to the different assumption and perspectives used. Different perspectives would include different costing. Studies only including the direct cost would likely over-estimate the cost-effectiveness of the vaccine. The threshold value adopted would also affect the result. A stricter threshold value would under-estimate the cost-effectiveness. Some low-and-middle income countries has no available data on the vaccination because the vaccine is not available in the market, the data would only rely on the past literature or international data. 12 out of the 15 studies showed that the vaccination is cost-effective in the countries. Conclusion and Implication: the ICER is sensitive to the price of the vaccine, the efficacy, the duration of protection, the discount rate, the screening coverage rate, and the age of receiving vaccination, the vaccination coverage rate and the cervical cancer or genital warts incidence rate. Some studies showed that regular screening combined with vaccination program would be cost-effective. In the studies comparing the 2 types of vaccines, all the results showed that quadrivalent vaccine dominant to the bivalent vaccine. Moreover, the vaccination would decrease the cervical cancer incidence by 20% to 90%. In view of the prevalence of HPV type and the high incidence rate of genital warts. The quadrivalent vaccine is likely beneficial to Hong Kong / published_or_final_version / Public Health / Master / Master of Public Health

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