Preventing Influenza in Healthy Adults

Can a universal influenza immunization program reduce emergency department volume?

“…18 Since 1989 Ontario has provided yearly influenza vaccinations for persons at high risk of influenza complications (i.e., people with chronic cardiac or pulmonary disorders, those over the age of 65, residents of long-term care facilities and health services workers). The cost-effectiveness of vaccinating low-risk people remains controversial, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and although numerous studies have looked at the causes of ED utilization and overcrowding there are no data suggesting influenza causes overcrowding. [31][32][33][34][35][36] However, although universal vaccination may have little influence on ED volumes, vaccinating individuals at high risk for complications arising from influenza provides an average direct cost savings of $117 per person, in addition to reducing the number of hospitalizations and deaths.…”

Can a universal influenza immunization program reduce emergency department volume?

“…18 Since 1989 Ontario has provided yearly influenza vaccinations for persons at high risk of influenza complications (i.e., people with chronic cardiac or pulmonary disorders, those over the age of 65, residents of long-term care facilities and health services workers). The cost-effectiveness of vaccinating low-risk people remains controversial, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and although numerous studies have looked at the causes of ED utilization and overcrowding there are no data suggesting influenza causes overcrowding. [31][32][33][34][35][36] However, although universal vaccination may have little influence on ED volumes, vaccinating individuals at high risk for complications arising from influenza provides an average direct cost savings of $117 per person, in addition to reducing the number of hospitalizations and deaths.…”

Theorising maybe: A feminist/queer theory convergence

“…It also points to a more nuanced answer to the motives and political understandings of the far-from-monolithic group of men who purchase sex from women. 33 In the same way that moving away from a domination model of power makes it possible to conceptualise women's actions and motives in terms of constrained agency rather than forcing women into being either agents or victims, productive, subjectifying versions of power relations make men's subjectivity both more complicated and more open to potential reform. On the dominance view, there is no reason for men to change given the benefits they currently receive.…”

A Markov model for sample size calculation and inference in vaccine cost‐effectiveness studies

“…Of all these, only the Minneapolis study reported a signiÿcant cost saving due to inuenza vaccine. This has led to a debate [6,9,10] in which it has been suggested that the Minneapolis result was anomalous. However the population sampled in Minneapolis appears to have been socio-economically distinct from the professionals sampled by the FMC, Baltimore and LA studies.…”

Can a universal influenza immunization program reduce emergency department volume?

“…18 Since 1989 Ontario has provided yearly influenza vaccinations for persons at high risk of influenza complications (i.e., people with chronic cardiac or pulmonary disorders, those over the age of 65, residents of long-term care facilities and health services workers). The cost-effectiveness of vaccinating low-risk people remains controversial, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and although numerous studies have looked at the causes of ED utilization and overcrowding there are no data suggesting influenza causes overcrowding. [31][32][33][34][35][36] However, although universal vaccination may have little influence on ED volumes, vaccinating individuals at high risk for complications arising from influenza provides an average direct cost savings of $117 per person, in addition to reducing the number of hospitalizations and deaths.…”

Theorising maybe: A feminist/queer theory convergence

“…It also points to a more nuanced answer to the motives and political understandings of the far-from-monolithic group of men who purchase sex from women. 33 In the same way that moving away from a domination model of power makes it possible to conceptualise women's actions and motives in terms of constrained agency rather than forcing women into being either agents or victims, productive, subjectifying versions of power relations make men's subjectivity both more complicated and more open to potential reform. On the dominance view, there is no reason for men to change given the benefits they currently receive.…”

A Markov model for sample size calculation and inference in vaccine cost‐effectiveness studies

“…Of all these, only the Minneapolis study reported a signiÿcant cost saving due to inuenza vaccine. This has led to a debate [6,9,10] in which it has been suggested that the Minneapolis result was anomalous. However the population sampled in Minneapolis appears to have been socio-economically distinct from the professionals sampled by the FMC, Baltimore and LA studies.…”

Can a universal influenza immunization program reduce emergency department volume?

“…18 Since 1989 Ontario has provided yearly influenza vaccinations for persons at high risk of influenza complications (i.e., people with chronic cardiac or pulmonary disorders, those over the age of 65, residents of long-term care facilities and health services workers). The cost-effectiveness of vaccinating low-risk people remains controversial, [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and although numerous studies have looked at the causes of ED utilization and overcrowding there are no data suggesting influenza causes overcrowding. [31][32][33][34][35][36] However, although universal vaccination may have little influence on ED volumes, vaccinating individuals at high risk for complications arising from influenza provides an average direct cost savings of $117 per person, in addition to reducing the number of hospitalizations and deaths.…”

Theorising maybe: A feminist/queer theory convergence

“…It also points to a more nuanced answer to the motives and political understandings of the far-from-monolithic group of men who purchase sex from women. 33 In the same way that moving away from a domination model of power makes it possible to conceptualise women's actions and motives in terms of constrained agency rather than forcing women into being either agents or victims, productive, subjectifying versions of power relations make men's subjectivity both more complicated and more open to potential reform. On the dominance view, there is no reason for men to change given the benefits they currently receive.…”

A Markov model for sample size calculation and inference in vaccine cost‐effectiveness studies

“…Of all these, only the Minneapolis study reported a signiÿcant cost saving due to inuenza vaccine. This has led to a debate [6,9,10] in which it has been suggested that the Minneapolis result was anomalous. However the population sampled in Minneapolis appears to have been socio-economically distinct from the professionals sampled by the FMC, Baltimore and LA studies.…”