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Health Affairs, 24, no. 3 (2005): 594-595 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.594 © 2005 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Financing Vaccines: In Search Of Solutions That Work

The fragile processes that lead to the immunization of populations are increasingly subject to breakdown, as the U.S. shortages of influenza vaccine demonstrated the past two winters. These episodes are emblematic of an unrelenting series of vaccine shortages that have occurred over many years. For example, since 1998, nine of twelve vaccines routinely recommended for children have been in short supply. If past is prologue, once these crises subside, policymakers’ rapt attention dissipates, and the problems that dog the reliable distribution of vaccines remain. What prompts this failure to connect the dots between these continuing shortages and a crystal-clear recognition . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John K. Iglehart, Founding Editor

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