A SpatioTemporal model for influenza

Electronic Journal of Health Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Edlund, Stefan ^a   Bromberg, Michal ^b   Chodick, Gabriel ^c   Douglas, Judith ^a   Ford, Daniel ^a   Kaufman, Zalman ^b   Lessler, Justin ^d   Marom, Rachel ^c   Mesika, Yossi ^e   Ram, Roni ^e   Shalev, Varda ^c   Kaufman, James ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Israel Center for Disease Control   (Israel)

^c MACCABI HEALTHCARE SERVICES   (Israel)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compartmental disease models; Health; Modeling; Seasonal influenza; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955456286     PISSN: 14464381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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