Group interest versus self-interest in smallpox vaccination policy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 10564-10567

  Bauch, Chris T ^a   Galvani, Alison P ^b   Earn, David J D ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALLPOX VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HERD; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALLPOX; THEORY; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

GAME THEORY; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MASS IMMUNIZATION; SMALLPOX VACCINE; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION;

DNA VIRUSES; VARIOLA VIRUS;

EID: 0041836219     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1731324100     Document Type: Article

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