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SUBMITTER: Simons JJM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9251567 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simons Joost J M JJM Westra Tjalke A TA Postma Maarten J MJ
Preventive medicine reports 20220627
In the Netherlands, the Health Council has advised that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination should be offered to both boys and girls. Additionally, boys and men up to the age of 26 years should be included in a catch-up program. In this study, we examine the cost-effectiveness of this HPV catch-up program. We used a static Markov model to estimate the amount of cancers prevented and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) for different scenarios. Vaccinating men from 12 until the ...[more]