Abstract
The objectives of the guidance are the following:
- to highlight and explain commonalities and differences across different costing approaches, tools, and guidelines;
- to highlight the objectives of different costing approaches, tools, and guidelines;
- to encourage improvement and innovation in methods and tools that are fit for purpose;
- to advance the immunization economics community of practice by committing to follow certain principles and common definitions (as detailed in Annex) that will make the collective costing work more easily interpretable and useful, while acknowledging that some deviations may occur due to limits to standardization of approaches with different objectives.
- Guidelines