The impact of human behavioral changes in 2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9021, Issue , 2015, Pages 75-84

  Hu, Kun ^a   Bianco, Simone ^a   Edlund, Stefan ^a   Kaufman, James ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease transmission; Ebola; Human behavioral changes; System dynamics model; West africa

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DISEASES; HEALTH RISKS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; VIRUSES;

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL; WEST AFRICA;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 84925335330     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16268-3_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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