Policies for biodefense revisited: The prioritized vaccination process for smallpox

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-23

  Kress, Moshe ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass vaccination; Potentially traceable; Prioritized vaccination; Trace vaccination

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845345619     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-006-0077-9     Document Type: Article

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