Survey demonstrates substantial lost productivity among parents caring for children with chickenpox, highlighting indirect costs for vaccination policy.
While medical costs of chickenpox have been researched, little is known about indirect costs. Understanding total costs is important for decisions about vaccination. This study estimated the value of lost productivity of adults missing work to care for children with chickenpox.
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Wittenberg et al. (2024) studied this question.
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