Modeling and optimizing the public-health infrastructure for emergency response

Interfaces

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 476-490

  Pietz, Ferdinand ^a   Benecke, Bernard ^a   Lee, Eva K ^b   Hung Chen, Chien ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

All hazard emergency response; Anthrax; Bioterrorism; Decision support system; Disaster medicine; Disease propagation; Emergency response; Facility location; Infectious disease; Integer programming; Mass dispensing; Medical countermeasures; Pandemic; Public health; Public health informatics; Resource allocation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350507926     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1090.0463     Document Type: Article

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