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. 1997 Sep-Oct;8(5):257–264. doi: 10.1155/1997/215175

TABLE 6.

Benefit-cost ratios and sensitivity analysis

Benefit-cost ratios*
Discount rate (%) Ministry of health Society
Primary analysis
  5 6.34 3.25
Secondary analysis
  0 8.99 4.61
  3 7.08 3.64
  7 5.84 3.00
*

Benefit-cost ratios were calculated by dividing the cost saved from disease averted with a second dose program less the cost averted with the single dose program by the total cost of implementing a program for a second dose of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at 18 months minus the cost of the program for a single dose