Media/psychological impact on multiple outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 153-164

  Liu, Rongsong ^a   Wu, Jianhong ^b   Zhu, Huaiping ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endemic equilibrium; Hopf bifurcation; Media psychological impact; Oscillatory behaviors; SARS

Indexed keywords

HOPF BIFURCATION;

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ENDEMIC EQUILIBRIUM; MEDIA/PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT; OSCILLATORY BEHAVIORS; PERIODIC OSCILLATION; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; SARS; TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS MEDIUM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

EID: 34547994523     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17486700701425870     Document Type: Article

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