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The first assessment reports have been issued in proceedings concerning immunological medicinal products conducted under the new rules introduced by the amendment to the Public Health Insurance Act.

As part of these proceedings, the importance of vaccination was assessed from several key perspectives:

• Societal and social benefits – the assessment considered not only the impact of vaccination on reducing the number of infections, but also, for example, the deterioration in children’s school performance associated with illness and protection against permanent functional impairment, which in adult patients may affect independence, family life and overall quality of life.
• Economic benefits – the assessment focused on direct costs, including savings resulting from a reduced need for treatment and a lower burden on healthcare facilities, as well as indirect costs, such as loss of household income, productivity losses and reduced government expenditure on sickness benefits, disability pensions and similar social benefits.

In these specific cases, prevention through vaccination was found to be a more economically favourable strategy than the subsequent treatment of complicated cases of disease.

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