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. 2021 Dec 29;17(12):5361–5366. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.2013078

Table 4.

Effect of measles vaccination on deaths due to other diseases

  Death rate (# deaths out of 100,000)
Sample: Age 1–4 Measles Diarrhea LRI Malaria Meningitis TB
  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Measles vaccination rate
(average of current (t) + lagged 1 (t-1)), 0–1
−434.935*** −416.698*** −262.497*** −230.716*** −70.866*** −59.386***
  (14.853) (18.017) (10.367) (17.125) (3.933) (3.100)
N 1218 1218 1218 1218 1218 1218
r2 0.423 0.314 0.354 0.134 0.217 0.239
Mean of dependent variable in 1990 304.71 394.815 265.059 326.991 70.642 61.657
Mean of dependent variable in 2019 29.48 97.529 66.331 119.759 18.416 14.205
Sample: Age 5–9            
  Measles Diarrhea LRI Malaria Meningitis TB
  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
Measles vaccination rate
(average of current (t) + lagged 1 (t-1)), 0–1
−50.786*** −14.090*** −7.322*** −8.188*** −6.629*** −5.436***
  (1.730) (0.688) (0.418) (1.159) (0.346) (0.312)
N 1218 1218 1218 1218 1218 1218
r2 0.424 0.264 0.207 0.041 0.239 0.206