Choosing pandemic parameters for pandemic preparedness planning: A comparison of pandemic scenarios prior to and following the influenza A(H1N1) 2009 pandemic

Health Policy

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-62

  Van Der Weijden, Charlie P ^a   Stein, Mart L ^a   Jacobi, André J ^a   Kretzschmar, Mirjam E E ^a,b   Reintjes, Ralf ^c   van Steenbergen, Jim E ^a,d   Timen, Aura ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Influenza; Modelling; Pandemic; Parameters

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDLINE; PANDEMIC; PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS PLANNING; PARAMETERS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION;

HEALTH PLANNING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PANDEMICS;

EID: 84870945915     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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