Agent-based simulation for weekend-extension strategies to mitigate influenza outbreaks

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mao, Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW YORK; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959644294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-522     Document Type: Article

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