Can influenza epidemics be prevented by voluntary vaccination?

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 0796-0802

  Vardavas, Raffaele ^a   Breban, Romulus ^a   Blower, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; VACCINES;

ADAPTIVE DECISION MAKING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; COUPLED MODELS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; HUMAN COGNITION; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS; LEVEL MODEL; MODELLING STUDIES; POPULATION-LEVEL MODELS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FAMILY; HEALTH PROGRAM; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REWARD; VACCINATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

EID: 34249695930     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030085     Document Type: Article

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