The macroeconomic impact of pandemic influenza: Estimates from models of the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and the Netherlands

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 543-554

  Keogh Brown, Marcus Richard ^a   Smith, Richard D ^a   Edmunds, John W ^a   Beutels, Philippe ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computable general equilibrium; Influenza; Macroeconomic modelling

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A (H5N1); NETHERLANDS; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VACCINATION;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BELGIUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECONOMICS; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, ECONOMIC; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC HEALTH; VACCINATION;

EID: 78649907566     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-009-0210-1     Document Type: Article

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