A freely available software tool for assessing aspects of pandemic influenza risk reduction for small islands

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1295, 2009, Pages 92-93

  Schwehm, Markus ^a   Eichner, Martin ^b   Wilson, Nick ^c   Baker, Michael G ^c  

^a EXPLOSYS GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEW ZEALAND; NOTE; PANDEMIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TRAVEL; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SOFTWARE; TRAVEL;

EID: 68949086708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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