A double-risk monitoring and movement restriction policy for Ebola entry screening at airports in the United States

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue , 2016, Pages 33-38

  Jacobson, Sheldon H ^a   Yu, Ge ^b   Jokela, Janet A ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost analysis; Ebola screening; Public health policy

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOUBLE RISK MONITORING; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; INFECTION CONTROL; MOVEMENT RESTRICTION POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AIRPORTS; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962207266     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2016.03.018     Document Type: Article

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