Cost-effective control of infectious disease outbreaks accounting for societal reaction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Fast, Shannon M ^a   González, Marta C ^b   Markuzon, Natasha ^a  

^a CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION CONTROL; MASS MEDIUM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRIMARY PREVENTION;

EID: 84942645676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136059     Document Type: Article

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