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Background: This study tries to provide a comparative analysis of the systematic review of economic evaluation literature available about vaccines. Methods: PubMed database were searched by using the following keywords: “vaccination/economics [MeSH]”. All articles were included if: 1) A literature or systematic review of vaccination studies; 2) primary or secondary data; 3) published in English; 4) related to human. Exclusion criteria were as followings: 1) editorial, review or methodological articles; 2) not in health sector; 3) not applied from 2009 to 2013. Results: From 22 records found, eleven articles met selection criteria. Only 27.3 percent (3 of 11 studies) was recorded about the methodology of conducting systematic review studies based on the PRISMA, and AMSTAR guideline. Two of eleven studies (18.1 percent) in this review, the authors evaluated the quality of vaccination systematic review studies with different levels including “Moderate” to “Moderate to good” and “Moderate to good”. Discussion and conclusion: According to this study, it helps to understand the current situation for conducting and reporting the economic evaluation of vaccination systematic review studies. Currently, the large number of studies and systematic reviews on the effects of vaccination, high quality evidence to inform policy decisions on how best to use vaccination in health care is still lacking.
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Objectives: The purpose of the study was to explore the characteristic of Quality of Working Life (QWL) research studies related to healthcare sector. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, Science Direct, and Cochrane Library databases till February 2015. We uses those search term that are ‘health occupation’, ‘health personnel’, ‘medical staff’, ‘nurse health care manpower’, ‘health manpower’, ‘healthcare manpower’, ‘health professional’, ‘practitioner’, ‘quality of working life’, ‘quality of work life’, ‘QWL’ and ‘QoWL’. Results: A total of 56 articles researching QWL were identified, of which 16 papers met the inclusion criteria. In those papers, the first study of QWL was published in 1994. Asia, America, and Europe had published seven, six and four papers, respectively. The number of papers that focus on QWL of nurses (n=9, 52.9%) was the most concerned sector. There are over 200 participants (n=9, 52.9%)in the major studies. The factors that affect QWL are job satisfaction, homework interface, working conditions, compensation, human relations, management-personnel relations and support. Conclusion: Nowadays, there are nine countries that focus on QWL of healthcare staffs by researching and assessing concerned factors to enhance worker’s satisfaction and support workers to be better manager change and transition.