Vaccination take-up and health: Evidence from a flu vaccination program for the elderly

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We analyze the effects of a vaccination program providing free flu vaccine to individuals aged 65 or more on take-up and hospitalization. By using linked patient-general practitioner (GP) data, we implement a regression discontinuity design around the threshold at age 65. We find that the program increases vaccination take-up by 6 percentage points, which corresponds to 75% of the take-up for non-eligible individuals, and reduces the probability of hospitalization by about 44%. We show that the effect on take-up is not entirely due to an income channel, and that the effect on health is mainly driven by patients with higher-quality GPs and emergency hospitalizations.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 82

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Demographic Economics: General
• Thema: vaccination ; influenza ; public health ; health prevention policies

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Brilli, Ylenia ; Lucifora, Claudio ; Russo, Antonio ; Tonello, Marco
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DISCE)
• (wo): Milano
• (wann): 2019

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/202856
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ