Analyzing Vaccine Programs/Policies in Western Europe

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的休假项目有以下具体目标： 1.对10个最大（按人口）西欧国家的卫生保健系统，特别是儿童免疫接种计划的已发表文献进行彻底审查。 2.对这10个西欧国家的政府和非政府人员进行深入访谈，了解他们的儿童免疫接种计划，包括筹资、交付、组织和政策。 3.利用目标1和目标2中获得的信息，深入了解每个国家的儿童免疫组织、筹资和提供系统。 4.将国家概况汇编成专著，作为研究人员进行跨国免疫研究的指南。 这本专著将提供必要的信息，以帮助未来的研究人员确定哪些国家是最适合的具体组成部分或与美国免疫计划有关的拟议政策的比较研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed sabbatical project has the following specific aims: 1. Conduct a thorough review of the published literature on the health care system in general, and the child immunization program specifically, for the 10 largest (by population) Western European nations. 2. Conduct in-depth interviews with governmental and non-governmental personnel in the same 10 Western European nations regarding their child immunization program including financing, delivery, organization, and policies. 3. Using information obtained in Aims #1 and #2; develop in-depth profiles of the child immunization organizational, financing and delivery systems for each country. 4. Compile the country profiles into a monograph to serve as a guide for researchers seeking to perform cross-national immunization research. This monograph will provide essential information to assist future researchers in determining which countries are most appropriate for comparative studies of specific components or proposed policies relating to the US immunization program.