RM analysis Kati Iso-Markku

Group 1

The purpose of Group 1´s study is to evaluate the impact of vaccination in Finland and if it was a right decision to vaccinate the whole population. They are thinking about if in contrast to vaccinating everybody only risk groups would have been vaccinetad or nobody would have been vaccinated. They will look at data from Finland where vaccination was recommended for whole population and Mexico where vaccinations were not done. A lot of information is needed before calculations can be done and this would be a long and thorough analysis.

Perspective of the Ministry of Social and Health Affairs

• Relevance: The content of the study analysis is relevant in relation to the purpose. It effectively takes into account the different variables influencing the outcomes.
• Pertinence: The analysis is done after the epidemic to help understand if the right decisions were made. This will help in the future if similar situations occur and it will also give useful information that can be shared with the public. The public interest is very high concerning the decisions that were made during the swine flu pandemic and the ministry is held responsible, therefore we need to show that we are evaluating the actions and decisions that were taken.
• Usability:The idea of the analysis is easy to grasp, but there are many variables and much information that needs to be gathered before the actual analysis could be done. But it gives a good idea about the things that were/would have been influencing on the outcomes.
• Acceptability: If all information is gathered from reliable sources and there are precise estimations, the results would be acceptable to the ministry

Perspective of a journalist

• Relevance: The analysis seems very thorough and would propably be sufficient for the stated purposes.
• Pertinence: The purpose of the analysis is relevant to my needs, because there is still huge public interest towards the swine flu case.
• Usability:I can somewhat grasp the main idea, but the analysis as a whole seems very large with many different things influencing on it.
• Acceptability: The results of the analysis would be acceptable if is done without pressure from the ministry.

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Overall Statements

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Evaluation of the swine flu/narcolepsy model

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