Effect of the one-child policy on influenza transmission in China: A stochastic transmission model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Fengchen ^a,b   Enanoria, Wayne T A ^a,b   Ray, Kathryn J ^a   Coffee, Megan P ^a,b   Gordon, Aubree ^b   Aragón, Tomás J ^b   Yu, Guowei ^c   Cowling, Benjamin J ^d   Porco, Travis C ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTH MINZU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; ONE CHILD POLICY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TWO CHILD POLICY; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MALE; STATISTICS; TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY PLANNING POLICY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84895520956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084961     Document Type: Article

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