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Review Article

Towards a more comprehensive approach for a total economic assessment of vaccines?

1. The building blocks for a health economic assessment of vaccination

Article: 1335162 | Received 02 May 2017, Accepted 22 May 2017, Published online: 31 Aug 2017

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