IMPACT: A generalisable system for simulating public health interventions

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 160, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 486-490

  Buchan, Iain ^a   Ainsworth, John ^a   Carruthers, Emma ^a   Couch, Philip ^a   O'Flaherty, Martin ^b   Smith, Duncan ^a   Williams, Richard ^a   Capewell, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Decision modelling; Epidemiology; Graphical models; Medical economics; Public health

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING POWER; DECISION MODELLING; GRAPHICAL MODEL; HEALTH INTERVENTIONS; HEALTH POLICY; MEDICAL ECONOMICS; POLICY INTERVENTION; POLICY MAKERS;

PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 78649510159     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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